[Gllug] CORRECTION: Gnome3 on Fedora 16 (Again)

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Wed Apr 18 13:12:52 UTC 2012


On 18 Apr 2012, John Edwards spake thusly:
> This might be speeded up by piping the list of files to xargs with
> something like:
> 	find / -gid 501 -print0 | xargs -r0 chgrp 1001
>
> But I sometimes meet problems with files with special characters in
> them when doing this, usually created by Windows clients via Samba.

*That* should only happen if chgrp is buggy. What characters were these?
What version of coreutils? (Maybe we can whip up a testcase...)

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