[ubuntu-uk] rsync chgrp problem - advice, please?

Kirrus kirrus at kirrus.co.uk
Fri Jun 8 11:56:24 BST 2007


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> Ah, right!  I'd missed the the fact that -exec was a condition of 
> 'find';  glad I didn't try using it to pipe other stuff into!  'Find' is 
> clearly powerful, but a bit of a portmanteau, and it's easy to miss the 
> significance of its conditions in the four pages of material in 'Linux 
> in a Nutshell'!
> 
> Many thanks to you and Robert for the extremely useful on-line seminar!. 
> (I do hope the content of this thread is not too 'off topic' on this 
> list - apologies if it is;  but it has been so helpful to me, and I hope 
> to others who are also learning.)
> 
> Best wishes
> --
> Diana

This hasn't been off topic really ^.^

Would it be a good idea to write up the tutorial-like segments of this discussion, and stick them in the wiki / on the Ubuntu-Forums if it's not already there?

Johnathon



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