Thread:Project:Support desk/ Question Batch Promote?

Is there a way from either the Site, CLI, or MySQL to batch promote users? Here is my Goal: I want to take all users who have confirmed there e-mail and "LITERALLY" promote them to a group. I have already read that the autopromote's Caveat is that id does not literally promote the user and thus when you search for users in said group, they will not actually appear.

-Bill