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From: jessea@dynasys.UUCP (Jesse W. Asher)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Recursion without -R
Keywords: recursion
Message-ID: <316@dynasys.UUCP>
Date: 18 Aug 90 01:13:28 GMT
References: <494@llnl.LLNL.GOV> <13595@ulysses.att.com>
Reply-To: jessea@dynasys.UUCP ()
Organization: Dynasys:  Consulting for the Future.
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In article <13595@ulysses.att.com>, swfc@ulysses.att.com (Shu-Wie F Chen) wrote the following:
>In article <494@llnl.LLNL.GOV>, rjshaw@ramius.ocf.llnl.gov (Robert Shaw)
>writes:
>|>Hi. 
>|>
>|>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
>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.

Why not just use "find . -exec chown foo {} \;"
Or if you have to do many different commands, use:

for x in `find . -print`
do
	chown foo $x
	chgrp foobar $x
	chmod 644 $x
done

This can be done from the command line and saves some time.