chown ?

[Joe Zeff]

On 01/30/2015 12:45 PM, Mickey wrote:
> Fedora 20
>
> I have a User Directory named  "kitty" I want to change all the
> directories. files to the owner kitty .
> There are some other owners of files that I want to change to kitty.
>
> chown -R kitty  kitty:kitty
>
> Is this Correct ?

Not according to man chown it isn't.  You have it backwards:

chown -R kitty:kitty kitty

Here, kitty, kitty, kitty...