anyone know more about chown?

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  • 3M TA3
    Confirmed User
    • Aug 2005
    • 2972
    #1

    anyone know more about chown?

    I was asked to change owners of files on Linux for a shared hosting client and to use the following command:

    chown R username:username {path to file}

    I normally run this:

    chown username {path to file}

    I tried running his command and it didn't work so I ran mine and it worked. He's happy but I must know more!

    was this guy smoking something or was he thinking FreeBSD or another OS?

    I thumbed through the pocket linux book and found nothing

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    • colpanic
      Confirmed User
      • May 2004
      • 1007
      #2
      it's -R, not R. (or maybe even -r .. I don't remember exactly)
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        • Gungadin
          Confirmed User
          • Aug 2005
          • 444
          #3
          Originally posted by colpanic
          it's -R, not R. (or maybe even -r .. I don't remember exactly)
          Yeah, -R, --recursive
          operate on files and directories recursively
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            • Wilbo
              Confirmed User
              • Feb 2001
              • 2082
              #4
              Yup -R I had to look it up once too.

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                • DatingGold
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                  • Feb 2003
                  • 13185
                  #5
                  -R

                  so maybe something like this


                  chown -R username.groupname *
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