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Re: [gentoo-user] [nb] How to change permission on this
From: Dale <dalek1967(at)bellsouth.net>
Date: Sun Feb 17 2008 - 02:51:28 EST
>> 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.
>>
Date: Sun Feb 17 2008 - 02:51:28 EST
felix@crowfix.com wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 12:52:05AM +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote: >
>> 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.
>>
> > * also omits the home directory itself. It probably wouldn't matter > in this case, but if you copied a user's home directory from one > machine to another where the uid changed, it would apply. > > > >
So it is like typing in the command cd ~ and it takes you to the home directory. Gotcha. Kewl. :-D
Wonder why that didn't hit me when I read it?
Dale
:-) :-) :-)
-- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing listReceived on Sun Feb 17 02:52:08 2008
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