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From: wag1@cbnewsl.att.com (d.wagley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: New HP machines Bad News for NeXT??
Summary: recursive chown
Message-ID: <1991May21.115317.13351@cbnewsl.att.com>
Date: 21 May 91 11:53:17 GMT
References: <1991May20.143857.1071@hulaw1.harvard.edu> <yjbHjqu9@cs.psu.edu> <29488@hydra.gatech.EDU>
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In article <29488@hydra.gatech.EDU>, gt1111a@prism.gatech.EDU (Vincent Fox) writes:
> 2) no recursive options on many commands. Try to chown or chgrp a whole
>    directory sometime.

Try:

	$ find dir -exec chown john {} \;

Where dir is the top of the directory tree that you want to change, and
john is the id that you want to change to. Works on every Unix system
I've ever used, including HP-UX.

					Doug