> chown [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-fh] [owner][:group] file ...

Aha, use "-R" instead of "-r"... the command is case-sensitive.

> How many hours will it take me to know what you know about these
> arcane commands?

These aren't the arcane commands. The arcane commands are things like
dd and find and awk.

> Do you Unix people think it's fun?

There's a bit of a learning curve, but you only have to climb it once. The
chown command was pretty much the same chown command back in 1978 when I got
to Berkeley.


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