Re: chmod/chown -R - maybe an ITP

[Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows@brown.edu>]

On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 03:19:36PM +0100, Russell Coker was heard to say:
> Do we have a set of chmod/chown programs that will solve these problems?
> I would like to have versions of them which take a source UID or GID.  So we
> can say "recurse through this directory and change the ownership or
> permissions of files owned by this user".
> This will make it really easy to renumber UIDs, "nuchown oldUID newUID -R /" !

  Can't you do this with find and xargs?  Or are you looking for something more
sophisticated?..

  Daniel

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