2009/8/13 Alan Lord (News) <alansli...@gmail.com>: > On 13/08/09 14:26, John Matthews wrote: >> Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: >>> 2009/8/13 John Matthews<jake...@sky.com>: >>> >>>> Hi, I wonder if somebody can help. I have uploaded a something to my >>>> server, I need to change the ownership. I managed to change the folders >>>> ownership, but not everything inside. >>>> >>>> the script I used was >>>> >>>> sudo chown www-data:www-data and filename >>>> >>>> I think I need to add the -R some where to make it recursive, but not >>>> sure where to add it. Should it be after the filename, or before. >>>> >>>> Thank you. >>>> >>>> John. >>>> >>> >>> $ sudo chown -R www-data:www-data datadirectory >>> >>> $ chown --help >>> $ man chown >>> >>> >> Um, thank you very much for the hep. I did actually try that, and it >> didnt make any sense to me. I dont see anywhere there that is similar to >> what you posted. I know its me, as I dont know enough, but sorry about that. >> >> Thank you anyway. >> >> John. >> > > Just for reference, > > you do not need to type both the user and group if they are the same. > > You can shortcut the command to: > > chown -R www-data: directory > > or if you are already in the directory just use a "*", e.g. > > chown -R www-data: * > > > HTH > > Alan > >
Ah! Now that /is/ a useful shortcut! -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
