Re: [gentoo-user] [nb] How to change permission on this

[Dale]

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.

Dale

:-)  :-)
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