On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 05:24:48PM +0200, Franco wrote:
> Sorry,
> i do an example, i have 2 folder in the same parent folder,
> pippo and pippo1 these have as owner and group pippo and pippo.
> I need to change just the owner in pippo.pippo and pippo1.pippo
A minor caution.
There is a push (by some, not me) to make dotted users names more
common "first.last".
Thus it is a good habit to use the : not the . notation for chown.
Both are currently correct "chown UID:GID file" and "chown UID.GID file"
but long term plan on dotted user names when scripting.
i.e.
chown -r boss.hog:xthug ~boss.hog
It is unclear to me what happens to all the permutations if you have
two users (boss and boss.hog) and two groups (hog and xthug).
chown -r boss.hog:xthug ~boss.hog
chown -r boss.hog:hog ~boss.hog
chown -r boss.hog ~boss.hog
chown -r boss:hog ~boss.hog
....?
Is the below broken? What would a script do?
chown -r boss.hog.hog ~boss.hog
Back to the topic....
So for two users (pippo1, pippo) and one group (pippo).....
If you want to change all the files in and under a dir
I think you need something like:
chown -r pippo:pippo pippo
chown -r pippo1:pippo pippo1
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