| 1 |
felix@×××××××.com wrote: |
| 2 |
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 12:52:05AM +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
| 3 |
> |
| 4 |
>> On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:50:37 -0600, Dale wrote: |
| 5 |
>> |
| 6 |
>> |
| 7 |
>>>>> With recursion: |
| 8 |
>>>>> chown -R user:group * |
| 9 |
>>>>> |
| 10 |
>>>> That won't cover hidden files, try |
| 11 |
>>>> |
| 12 |
>>>> chown -R user: ~user |
| 13 |
>>>> |
| 14 |
>>> What does the "~" make it do different? Got me curious about that. |
| 15 |
>>> |
| 16 |
>> Nothing in itself, it just refers to the user's home directory. The |
| 17 |
>> important point is that giving a directory matces all files in that |
| 18 |
>> directory, whereas * omits those beginning with a . in most people's |
| 19 |
>> shells. |
| 20 |
>> |
| 21 |
> |
| 22 |
> * also omits the home directory itself. It probably wouldn't matter |
| 23 |
> in this case, but if you copied a user's home directory from one |
| 24 |
> machine to another where the uid changed, it would apply. |
| 25 |
> |
| 26 |
> |
| 27 |
> |
| 28 |
> |
| 29 |
|
| 30 |
So it is like typing in the command cd ~ and it takes you to the home |
| 31 |
directory. Gotcha. Kewl. :-D |
| 32 |
|
| 33 |
Wonder why that didn't hit me when I read it? |
| 34 |
|
| 35 |
Dale |
| 36 |
|
| 37 |
:-) :-) :-) |
| 38 |
-- |
| 39 |
gentoo-user@l.g.o mailing list |
Archives