Neil Greenwood wrote: > 2009/8/13 William Anderson <ne...@well.com>: > >> 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. >> > > Just to confuse John even more :-), most commands (and all the ones > that take 'long options', such as --recursive) can cope with the > options being anywhere on the command line. > > E.g. > chown -R www-data: files > chown --recursive www-data: files > chown www-data: files --recursive > chown www-data: files -R > > are all equivalent (of course, there are other possibilities too :-) > This can be handy if you forgot an option on the previous command - I > often forget the '-l' to ls, and it's easy to type > '<up><space>-l<enter>' or '!! -l' to get what I wanted! > > There are some commands that are fussy, e.g. tar is a bit picky. But > then again, I've had nearly 20 years (argh!) experience with the shell > and you eventually pick up the fussy ones when they keep complaining! > It always works to put the options straight after the command. > > Cofion/Regards, > Neil. > > Hi everybody,
thank you so much for all your replies, they have helped tremendously. I have added them to my list of commands. They came in really handy, with the install. I managed to change the ownership of all files and folders very quickly. Thank you again. John. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
