[CentOS] Changing UID numbers

[Tony Mountifield]

In article <2f86eabc-697f-4f57-3a0a-f2e5da13d9d7 at nist.gov>,
Chris Schanzle via CentOS <centos at centos.org> wrote:
> My guess is you used something like
> 
>  Â  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:
> 
>  Â  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

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