-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, 2010-10-29 at 20:22 -0400, Lucky Leavell wrote:
On files/directories with no user, I want to change the user to nobody and likewise for the group. I could run the initial script twice, once to detect unowned files and the other to detect unowned groups and handle each separately. However, on some systems we have terabyte filesystems with millions of files and a single find command can run for days. Thus I would like to take this initial file and use that to correct both problems.
The problem I keep running into is with pathnames with embedded spaces. I have tried everything I can think of using shell scripts, awk and perl and they all have problems with pathnames with embedded spaces.
I simply write the names to a file, one file per line. Then a while loop reads them, one by one: while read FILES ; do WorkOn "$FILES" done < $LISTOFFILES Calling commands with enclosed "$FILES" variable works with spaces. However, you would still traverse the list twice at least, because the attributes are not stored that way, only the names. You could use find with xargs, but you still have to access the disk several times. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkzMDIYACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WBhwCfTISuBAAlNKnYACWtdvZsOY97 iqwAoIaU6C84WCExp1DekC4f6LDabjut =5Tt6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org