RE: [LUG] chown....

["Theo Zourzouvillys" <theo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> Is there a safe way to do chown -R, also chowning the '.' 
> files (.profile 
> etc.) without going in to '..' and screwing up the file 
> ownership for a 
> system.... i know that kelly had this problem a while ago, i 
> nearly did 
> the same but thought better of it....

chown -v user.group * .[!.]* -R

Should work.


theo

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