In article <2f86eabc-697f-4f57-3a0a-f2e5da13d...@nist.gov>,
Chris Schanzle via CentOS <centos@centos.org> wrote:
> My guess is you used something like
>
> Â find -uid=500 -exec chown 1000 {} \;
>
> This will start a chown process for each file, changing only one file at a
> time. That's a lot of work the system has
> to do for each file! But you probably know chown (and similar utilities)
> can take multiple file arguments, and 'find'
> can help you take advantage grouping many arguments with the '+' operator to
> -exec:
>
> Â find -uid=500 -exec chown 1000 {} +
Well I never knew that! Thanks. For many years I have been doing: find ...
-print0 | xargs -0 ...
Ah, I see the newer syntax was introduced in CentOS 5. :-)
Cheers
Tony
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