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Cc: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>,
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Subject: Re: find returns unusable result
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Josh Tolbert wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 11:33:14PM +0000, Vince wrote:
>   
>> or just
>> find /path/to/dirs -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
>> should do it.
>>     
>
> Fair enough; I generally prefer the xargs method in case I have to do any more
> processing later. Also, xargs' batching may potentially save you a bit of
> time, but I doubt that'd be noticable.
>
>   
True, for anything more complex xargs is invaluable.

Vince


> Thanks,
>
> Josh
>