Group: linux.gentoo.user
From: Benno Schulenberg
Date: Saturday, February 16, 2008 2:50 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [nb] How to change permission on this

Uwe Thiem wrote:
> On Saturday 16 February 2008, Dale wrote:
> > Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > > chown -R user: ~user
> >
> > What does the "~" make it do different?
>
> Change user only for those files that have a different one.

No. The ~ prefixed to a user name means the home dir of that user
as it is listed in /etc/passwd.

Benno
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