| 1 |
On Saturday 16 February 2008, Dale wrote: |
| 2 |
> Neil Bothwick wrote: |
| 3 |
> > On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:22:19 -0800, Brian Marshall wrote: |
| 4 |
> >>> I have a lot of dir. and files in my home directory. I want to |
| 5 |
> >>> chown all of it to my user. How to do this by one comand ? |
| 6 |
> >>> Thanks |
| 7 |
> >> |
| 8 |
> >> With recursion: |
| 9 |
> >> chown -R user:group * |
| 10 |
> > |
| 11 |
> > That won't cover hidden files, try |
| 12 |
> > |
| 13 |
> > chown -R user: ~user |
| 14 |
> |
| 15 |
> Neil, |
| 16 |
> |
| 17 |
> What does the "~" make it do different? Got me curious about that. |
| 18 |
|
| 19 |
Change user only for those files that have a different one. Avoids |
| 20 |
unnecessary writes. |
| 21 |
|
| 22 |
Uwe |
| 23 |
|
| 24 |
-- |
| 25 |
Informal Linux Group Namibia: |
| 26 |
http://www.linux.org.na/ |
| 27 |
SysEx (Pty) Ltd.: |
| 28 |
http://www.SysEx.com.na/ |
| 29 |
-- |
| 30 |
gentoo-user@l.g.o mailing list |
Archives