martin f krafft wrote:
> one warning:
> 
>   NEVER, i repeat *N*E*V*E*R* use the -R flag to chmod/chgrp/chown if
>   the final argument is not a directory. for instance
> 
>     chown -R pierre /music/mp3/*
> 
>   will eventually change *your entire filesystem* to be owned by
>   pierre!
> 

Can someone else confirm this because this doesn't make any sense to me 
and I have never encountered it.  I just tried a couple of tests trying 
to confirm this and was unable to reproduce it.


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