On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:03:28 +0100
"Amar Cosic" <amar.cosic@gmail.com> 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 *


Brian

On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 05:03:28PM +0100, Penguin Lover Amar Cosic squawked:
> 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

sudo chown -R <your user> <the root directory of all the files>

the -R option makes it recursive. no need to sudo if you are root
already.

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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


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Amar Cosic 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

Hm. Is an answer of "RTFM" accepted on this mailing list?

man chown. Specifically, take a long hard look at the -R option.



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Thanks guys.. that worked

On Feb 16, 2008 5:26 PM, Willie Wong <wwong@princeton.edu> wrote:

On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 05:03:28PM +0100, Penguin Lover Amar Cosic squawked:
> 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


sudo chown -R <your user> <the root directory of all the files>

the -R option makes it recursive. no need to sudo if you are root
already.

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On Saturday 16 February 2008, Amar Cosic 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

man chown, option -R
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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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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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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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On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:50:37 -0600, Dale wrote:

> >> With recursion:
> >> chown -R user:group *

> > That won't cover hidden files, try
> >
> > chown -R user: ~user

> What does the "~" make it do different? Got me curious about that.

Nothing in itself, it just refers to the user's home directory. The
important point is that giving a directory matces all files in that
directory, whereas * omits those beginning with a . in most people's
shells.


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