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From: etienne@accsys.ccs.imp.com (Stefan Hauser)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Recursion without -R
Keywords: recursion
Message-ID: <660@accsys.ccs.imp.com>
Date: 17 Aug 90 23:51:52 GMT
References: <494@llnl.LLNL.GOV> <13595@ulysses.att.com>
Organization: Another Chaotic Computer SYStem, Sargans CH
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In article <13595@ulysses.att.com> swfc@ulysses.att.com (Shu-Wie F Chen) writes:
>In article <494@llnl.LLNL.GOV>, rjshaw@ramius.ocf.llnl.gov (Robert Shaw)
>writes:
>|>What are some quick tricks for getting programs like chmod and chown to
>|>descend into all subdirectories? Programs without a -R option, that is.

>>find . -print | xargs chown foo


how about :

find . -exec chown foo {} \;

i think that should work on all systems, or not ?

   stefan

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