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Right, but if the number of files is too large, which is very likely to 
happen your solution won't work at all as you'll get a broken pipe.

Hence the reason I threw in the '-n 10'  You could certainly jump it up 
to say, 1000, but your solution will attempt to chown all the files and 
likely will puke and not work at all.

> 
> 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.

My follow solution used chown -R as well.

> 
> 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!

Not necessarily, this has been a good discussion. :)


-- 
Until later, Geoffrey


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