13 Mar
2009
13 Mar
'09
3:53 p.m.
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 09:40:22AM +0000, steveydoteu wrote:
Chris, with your vast "experiences" you so often speak of, surely you would have found an alternate to the god awful use of chown and a wildcard expansion by now?
Like what? It's crude quick and simple but did basically what I needed in that particular case. Why try to be any cleverer?
Re my 'experience', a great deal of it is on old[ish] Solaris systems, and also various other (often old) varieties of Unix. I thus tend to go for "lowest common denominator" types of command because they work on every system I use.
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Chris Green