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From: Benno Schulenberg <benno.schulenberg@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [nb] How to change permission on this
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:47:18
Message-Id: 200802162146.45256.benno.schulenberg@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [nb] How to change permission on this by Uwe Thiem
1 Uwe Thiem wrote:
2 > On Saturday 16 February 2008, Dale wrote:
3 > > Neil Bothwick wrote:
4 > > > chown -R user: ~user
5 > >
6 > > What does the "~" make it do different?
7 >
8 > Change user only for those files that have a different one.
9
10 No. The ~ prefixed to a user name means the home dir of that user
11 as it is listed in /etc/passwd.
12
13 Benno
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