chown ?

[Rick Stevens]

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 ?

The correct command is:

	chown -R kitty:kitty kitty

The "-R" means "recursive". The "kitty:kitty" define the user and group
you want the files chown'd to, the last "kitty" is the directory (and
everything it contains) you want to operate on.

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