chown ?

[Rick Stevens]

On 01/30/2015 01:07 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> 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...

"I had a friend who named his dog, 'Stay'. He kept saying, 'Come here,
Stay. Come here, Stay!' The dog almost had a heart attack."

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