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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: <16710055@hpisod2.HP.COM>
Date: 30 May 90 23:22:28 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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> |>The following will be even faster, since it does the files up to 20 per
> |>invocation of chown:
> |>
> |>>   find . -print | xargs -n20 chown <user>
> 
> From xargs(1) on or HP-UX 7.0 system:
> 
>           Flags -i, -l,
>           and -n determine how arguments are selected for each command
>           invocation.  When none of these flags are coded, the
>           initial-arguments are followed by arguments read
>           continuously from standard input until an internal buffer is
>           full, and then command is executed with the accumulated
>           args.  

Yes, you're right.  Thanks for the correction.

Dave