Group: linux.gentoo.user
From: Uwe Thiem
Date: Saturday, February 16, 2008 12:40 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [nb] How to change permission on this

On Saturday 16 February 2008, Dale wrote:
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:22:19 -0800, Brian Marshall wrote:
> >>> I have a lot of dir. and files in my home directory. I want to
> >>> chown all of it to my user. How to do this by one comand ?
> >>> Thanks
> >>
> >> With recursion:
> >> chown -R user:group *
> >
> > That won't cover hidden files, try
> >
> > chown -R user: ~user
>
> Neil,
>
> What does the "~" make it do different? Got me curious about that.

Change user only for those files that have a different one. Avoids
unnecessary writes.

Uwe

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