Recursion without -R

[Stefan Hauser]

In article <13595 at ulysses.att.com> swfc at ulysses.att.com (Shu-Wie F Chen) writes:
>In article <494 at llnl.LLNL.GOV>, rjshaw at 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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