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Re: [SAGE] LDAP Migration Question
On Jul 2, 2007, at 14:15 , Brad Knowles wrote:
> On 7/2/07, Nick Stoughton wrote:
>
>> If your find is POSIX conforming, then you can do
>>
>> find / -owner $old_uid -exec chown $2 {} +
>
> Now we not only get to nuke people for excessive unnecessary use of
> "cat", now we can whack them for unnecessary use of xargs....
xargs still wins, because -exec does a fork/exec for each file while
xargs does them in batches.
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