I still do that chown command when necessary but only as a normal user.
On 18 Nov 2010 17:02, "Brian R Masterman" <b...@seahues.net> wrote:
> On 18/11/10 12:00, dorset-requ...@mailman.lug.org.uk wrote:
>> The command I put in was rm -rf ~/ .shotwell/Examples
>>
> You are not alone, we had a UNIX administrator do a;
> chown -R .* username
>
> Only to discover that it had changed all the above directories and then
> down.
>
> Whereas they should have typed;
>
> chown -R .[a-z]* username
>
> The saying comes to mind, measure twice, cut once.
>
> Brian M.
>
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