Recursion without -R
Shu-Wie F Chen
swfc at ulysses.att.com
Wed Aug 15 06:31:40 AEST 1990
In article <494 at llnl.LLNL.GOV>, rjshaw at 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.
*swfc
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