Re: [SAGE] LDAP Migration Question

[Brad Knowles <brad@shub-internet.org>]

On 6/29/07, David Magda quoted Chris St. Pierre:

>>  find / -owner $old_uid | xargs chown $2
>
>  Be careful with paths with spaces with this line.

Indeed.

>  Depending on the version of find(1) that is being used it may be desirable
>  to use the "-exec" option instead of xargs(1).

Personally, I'd recommend using the "-print0" argument to find, and 
the "-0" argument to xargs.  That works pretty reliably for me, and 
avoids unnecessary large numbers of single-instance exec calls where 
a smaller number of xargs calls can be done.

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