[clug] Syncronising UID/GIDs when migrating to LDAP

[Sam Couter]

Michael James <clug3 at james.st> wrote:
> Years ago I migrated a batch by hand using:
> root>  find -name <old-number> -exec chown <new-name> {} \;

Eek! The -exec option to find will execute the program once for each
file it finds. Much better to use xargs to execute with a whole bunch of
files as arguments. Assuming GNU find and xargs:

find <whatever> -print0 | xargs -0 chown <new-uid>

This will be much faster.
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