How can I change the onwership of a complete directory .... I havetried!

[Vu Pham]

Try : 
# cd /your_directory_you_want_to_change
# chown -R mike:users * 


-----Original Message-----
From: linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org
[mailto:linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org] On Behalf Of Michael Fakaro
Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 10:38 AM
To: linux-users at linux-sxs.org; mfakaro at telus.net
Subject: How can I change the onwership of a complete directory .... I
havetried!

I just updated to Sus 10.1 and had backed up my .evolution directory onto cd

I attempted to copy it back using my user account and it would not copy so I
tried it as SU and it worked fine

Then I tried to run Evolution and what a mess it said the permissions were
all wrong

So I attempted to go into SU and change the properties and it wouldn't let
me in the gui so I went to the command line using

example:

chown mike .evolution

chgrp users .evolution

It changed the folder but not the contents

So I opened the folders and used

chown mike *

chgrp users *

It worked to but if I have to go to each directory to do this I'll be here
all month

Is there a command that will drill down and change all them at once ... I
can't find it in any of my manuals.

Thanks for your help

Mike




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