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According to Luke Kendall on 4/1/2005 12:11 AM: >>>> find / -xdev -user "$USER" -print0 | xargs -0 chown Administrators.SYSTEM >>> >>> You must mean 'chown -R --from="$USER" ...' :-) >> >> Hmm, sounds better still. :-) > > > D'oh! Not possible: there's no -xdev option on chown, so that would > do a whole lot more chown-ing than intended, as it reached across the > network, or at least into other mount points under "/" ... How about it - does it make sense to add an --xdev option to all of the recursive descent tools (chown, chmod, ls, ...) to force the recursion to stop at mount points, or is find/xargs the only supported idiom for this? - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCTUup84KuGfSFAYARAsM0AJ9tr8cXToAUL8pFTbQ7Wwsb1QdBIACg2bjN 65Rg1B3FY0hhu/0ABmsTVHw= =cgtW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
