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My way only invokes chown once.  Using xargs, if I understand it
correctly, will invoke chown N mod 10 times, where N equals the number
of files and subdirectories in the current directory and beneath.

Also, note that I only searched for directories, and did a "chown -R
foo.bar" on each directory, whereas you executed "chown foo.bar" on each
file.

And actually, now that I think about that a little more, my way won't
work at all, unless $DIRECTORY_TO_EXCLUDE is in the current directory.
Thinking a little more, my way will probably be slower, because the
recursive chown will chown everything in subdirectories multiple times.
Ack! Disregard my last post!

Jason
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