Re: Path confusion

[Eric Blake]

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[moving feature request portion of thread to bug-coreutils]

According to Luke Kendall on 4/1/2005 12:11 AM:
>>>> find / -xdev -user "$USER" -print0 | xargs -0 chown Administrators.SYSTEM
>>>
>>>  You must mean 'chown -R --from="$USER" ...' :-)  
>>  
>> Hmm, sounds better still.  :-) 
> 
> 
> D'oh!  Not possible: there's no -xdev option on chown, so that would
> do a whole lot more chown-ing than intended, as it reached across the
> network, or at least into other mount points under "/"  ...

How about it - does it make sense to add an --xdev option to all of the
recursive descent tools (chown, chmod, ls, ...) to force the recursion to
stop at mount points, or is find/xargs the only supported idiom for this?

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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