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From: Jim Dennis <jimd@mistery.mcafee.com>
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Subject: Re: running gag: chmod -R .\*
To: robin@is.co.za
Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 17:18:31 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: mac@nibsc.ac.uk, garth@dogbert.systems.sa.gov.au,
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In-Reply-To: <199605101316.PAA00755@admin.is.co.za> from "Robin Lunn" at May 10, 96 03:16:15 pm
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> 
> mac@nibsc.ac.uk wrote:
> > >find . -type f -exec chmod 0644 {} \;

		find ... | xargs chmod 0644

		is often faster (and easier to type then quoting the 
		braces under bash).

		'-exec' can often be replaced by '| xargs' and will often 
		be much faster.

		You might (very occasionally) bump into files with 
		embedded whitespace in them (bad!).  GNU 'find' and 'xargs'
		support a switches to pass the files as ASCIIZ strings
		(null-terminated) -- or I think there's a way to make 'find'
		die on the first *bad* file.

Jim Dennis,
System Administrator,
McAfee Associates