John Matthews wrote: > 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.
command flags almost always go after the command and before the rest of the parameters. See the appropriate man page for specific usage, as there are occasionally exceptions. You may want to use -v with chown to see what's being changed. -n -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
