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From: decot@hpisod2.HP.COM (Dave Decot)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP UX chown lacks recursive option, Why?
Message-ID: <16710054@hpisod2.HP.COM>
Date: 25 May 90 21:26:01 GMT
References: <5570415@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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> pyt> cd <wherever_you_want>
> pyt> find . -print -exec chown {} \;
> 
> If there are a lot of files to chown, then the following should be MUCH
> faster:
> 
>   cd <wherever>
>   find . -print | xargs chown <user>

This still invokes chown once per file.

The following will be even faster, since it does the files up to 20 per
invocation of chown:

>   find . -print | xargs -n20 chown <user>

Dave