chown ?

[Tim]

On Fri, 2015-01-30 at 15:45 -0500, Mickey wrote:
> chown -R kitty  kitty:kitty
>  
> Is this Correct ?

No.  Seeing as others have already said how to do it, I'll just add;
look at the man file for commands, there's explanations, and often
examples at the end of the manual (there definitely is, in this case).

man chown


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