Re: [LUG] chown....

[Paul Weaver <P.J.Weaver@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 28 January 2002 09:44, you wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 04:09:16AM +0000, Paul Weaver wrote:
> > Not efficent, doesnt always work, but "chown -R user `ls -A`" should
> > work for most directories.
>
> When does it not work?


If you have ~ 20,000 files in the directory (bash will only allow up to x 
[4096?] arguments. * might not work in that case either though.)

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