Finding and changing ownership of files by uid

In migrating to a laptop to allow the primary account to be a mobile user on a server, I deleted the user account. Since this user was also the admin for the machine, I now have a series of applications and files on the box which show 501:501 as the owner and group. I can use find to find the files. What I am searching for is the command that would allow me to pipe that to chown so I can modify all these files. Yes I do have a back-up.
Is it something like:
sudo find / -uid 501 | chown admin:admin
And then I could repeat to get the remaining 501 group with:
sudo find / -gid 501 | chown :admin
Thanks!

I suggest using xargs. Use -print0 on 'find' and -0 with xargs (those are zeros).
Something like:
find / -uid 501 -print0 | xargs -0 chown admin:admin
(I didn't fully test it -- ran with 'echo' instead of chown )

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(g) Management
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//An InDesign CS4 JavaScript
@@@BUILDINFO@@@ "FindChangeByList.jsx" 2.0.0.0 10-January-2008
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It takes me a lof of time to comprehend the sentence you write. Cause I am a Chinese. My poor English.
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