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Re: [LUG] chown....



On Sunday 27 January 2002 12:47, you wrote:
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....

Not efficent, doesnt always work, but "chown -R user `ls -A`" should work for 
most directories. 

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