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From: micah@sgi.com (micah altman)
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Subject: Re: Recursion without -R
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Date: 15 Aug 90 17:53:22 GMT
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In article <KAUL.90Aug14205729@icarus.eng.ohio-state.edu> kaul@icarus.eng.ohio-state.edu (Rich Kaul) writes:
>In article <13595@ulysses.att.com> swfc@ulysses.att.com (Shu-Wie F Chen) writes:
>   find . -print | xargs chown foo
>
>   Of course, this only works if you have xargs, which is from System V and
>   is also available on SunOS in their System V software installation option.
...
>

If your version of find supports the -exec option you could
recursively step through files and change the owner to "foo"
 by issueing the command

find . -exec chown foo {} \;

(  And yes, the "\;" at the end is necessary )

- Micah Altman
Computational Juggler