Re: [SAGE] LDAP Migration Question

[Travis <hcoyote@ghostar.ath.cx>]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 06:33:45PM -0400, David Magda wrote:
> On Jun 29, 2007, at 12:43, Chris St. Pierre wrote:
> 
> >find / -owner $old_uid | xargs chown $2
> 
> Be careful with paths with spaces with this line.
> 
> Depending on the version of find(1) that is being used it may be  
> desirable to use the "-exec" option instead of xargs(1).

Or change it to use:

    find / -owner $old_uid -print0 | xargs -0 chown $2

... assuming your find and xargs support using null seperated strings instead
of ones that use spaces and newlines.

Travis
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