On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 12:52:05AM +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:50:37 -0600, Dale wrote:
>
> > >> With recursion:
> > >> chown -R user:group *
>
> > > That won't cover hidden files, try
> > >
> > > chown -R user: ~user
>
> > What does the "~" make it do different? Got me curious about that.
>
> Nothing in itself, it just refers to the user's home directory. The
> important point is that giving a directory matces all files in that
> directory, whereas * omits those beginning with a . in most people's
> shells.
* also omits the home directory itself. It probably wouldn't matter
in this case, but if you copied a user's home directory from one
machine to another where the uid changed, it would apply.
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