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From: Dale <dalek1967@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [nb] How to change permission on this
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:50:49
Message-Id: 47B7145D.6010504@bellsouth.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [nb] How to change permission on this by Neil Bothwick
1 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:22:19 -0800, Brian Marshall wrote:
3 >
4 >
5 >>> I have a lot of dir. and files in my home directory. I want to chown
6 >>> all of it to my user. How to do this by one comand ? Thanks
7 >>>
8 >
9 >
10 >> With recursion:
11 >> chown -R user:group *
12 >>
13 >
14 > That won't cover hidden files, try
15 >
16 > chown -R user: ~user
17 >
18 >
19 >
20
21 Neil,
22
23 What does the "~" make it do different? Got me curious about that.
24
25 Dale
26
27 :-) :-)
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] [nb] How to change permission on this Uwe Thiem <uwix@××××.na>
Re: [gentoo-user] [nb] How to change permission on this Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>