On Thursday 07 April 2005 05:00, thufir wrote:
> "Bryan M. Johns" wrote:
> use the following as root at a shell from the directory above your
> target directory (eg - example):
>
> chown -R user:user example
>
> *Bryan M. Johns*
>
> *One Ring Group, Inc.*
> 300 West Wieuca Road
> Building One
> Suite 205
> Atlanta, GA 30342
> 404.303.9900 X: 104
> *http://www.oneringgroup.com*
> <
http://www.oneringgroup.com>
>
> Claude Jones wrote:
> > Pardon if this is too basic. Is there a way to change ownership for
> > all files in a folder? I want to change from root to user.
copying a directory of files from the cd to /home/thufir creates a ton of
locked files with root ownership. Whether this makes sense, dunno, but it
can be inconvenient.
Next time try copying a hierarchy using: cp -a ...
which will preserve ownership and permissions. See cp man page for details.
The copy may also be done using tar
do people recursively go through these files, or is there an alternate
solution?
thanks,
Thufir
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