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

David Bandel david.bandel
Mon May 22 06:59:05 PDT 2006


On 5/22/06, Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
[snip]
>
> chown -R mike .evolution
>
> > chgrp users .evolution
>
> chgrp -R users .evolution
>

I've always found chgrp to be a little redundant.  Since chown will
change either or both.  The group owner is just preceded with a colon.
 You can chown only the group using chown.  Why bother with chgrp?

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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