Group: linux.gentoo.user
From: Dale
Date: Saturday, February 16, 2008 11:00 AM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [nb] How to change permission on this

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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