Re: OFFTOPIC: Re: hardlinks.... sucks... ;-(

Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 8 Jan 1998 21:01:25 +0000


On Wed, Jan 07, 1998, Andreas Kostyrka wrote:
> One can use also:
> find / -user 1234 -print0 | xargs -0 chown 4321
> (That should solve the problem with spaces, etc.)

But not the problem with files staring with `-'. This instead, maybe:

find / -user 1234 -print0 | xargs -0r chown 4321 --

It still has the race condition, of course. If I really had to do this,
I'd use find piped into a Perl script using readdir/open/fstat/fchown.
Even this can be made to chown files outside the user's directory (but
still owned by the user) though.

-- Jamie Lokier