In article <[email protected]>, Chris Schanzle via CentOS <[email protected]> wrote: > My guess is you used something like > >  find -uid=500 -exec chown 1000 {} \; > > This will start a chown process for each file, changing only one file at a > time. That's a lot of work the system has > to do for each file! But you probably know chown (and similar utilities) > can take multiple file arguments, and 'find' > can help you take advantage grouping many arguments with the '+' operator to > -exec: > >  find -uid=500 -exec chown 1000 {} +
Well I never knew that! Thanks. For many years I have been doing: find ... -print0 | xargs -0 ... Ah, I see the newer syntax was introduced in CentOS 5. :-) Cheers Tony -- Tony Mountifield Work: [email protected] - http://www.softins.co.uk Play: [email protected] - http://tony.mountifield.org
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