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From: David Moore <dmoore@ucsd.edu>
Date: 02 Apr 1997 21:50:48 -0800
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"William M. Perry" <wmperry@aventail.com> writes:
> Steven L Baur writes:
> >William M Perry writes:

> >>   Best bet would be to: chown -R `whoami` lisp
> >
> >>   ??  But that doesn't deal with group crap.
> >
> >And it doesn't work on systems that don't implement the -R flag in chown.
> 
>   Great.  Repeat after me: we all love unix.

chown -R is a "recent" invention!  I'm sure you could get something
working with find . -exec chown UID '{}' ';' if we really wanted this?

The reason we don't use cp is just to keep the timestamps?

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