One little piece of advice for the next person who might try to change owners on that many messages. You will generate a ton of outbound email if you have notify-owner on assign enabled.
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Ram <ram0...@gmail.com> wrote: > `xargs -L 1` - yep that worked like charm! > thanks Jaye, > ram > > > > On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Jaye Mathisen <mr...@lilpantry.com>wrote: > >> ./rt -i ls owner=usera | sed -e 's/ticket\///' | xargs -L 1 ./rt steal >> >> or somesuch should get you close. >> >> Might have to check your documentation for xargs to tell it how to only >> run 1 command at a time, I think it varies between linux and BSD. >> >> >> >> On 11/11/2013 10:54 AM, Ram wrote: >> >>> I am looking to change the owner of 3000 tickets from usera to userb. It >>> seems that ./rt take|untake|steal does not accept a request to read ids >>> from <stdin> - that is this doesn't work: >>> ./rt -i ls owner=usera | ./rt steal - >>> >>> The first problem is that steal|take|untake doesn't like the explicit >>> notation ticket/ticket_id but rather prefers just a ticket_id. That's easy >>> enough to work around - just nuke "ticket/". The issue around not like "-" >>> indicating take parameters from <stdin> is more of a hassle. >>> >>> Suggestions? >>> >>> thanks >>> >>> >> -- >> Jaye Mathisen, Lil Pantry >> P:541-476-0152 >> F:541-476-0152 >> >> >