Re: Changing Oracle gid and uid?

> I have been gently reminded that use of 'xargs' in conjunction with 'find'
> (piped output) is vastly superior to use of the '-exec' option of 'find'
> alone. This is in line with the core Unix approach of "software tools",
> and I agree whole-heartedly. (The problem is one of exec'ing a new
> process for every found file using 'find ... -exec ...', versus exec'ing
> just one process for a whole bunch of input filenames at once).

Of course ..., as long as you reach the "too many arguments" limit of some utility (ex. rm) :O).
In that case your first suggestion will be useful.

Cheers,
Dimitre

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