On Jul 23, 2011, at 03:27, Andy Canfield wrote: > On 07/21/2011 07:27 PM, Cooke, Mark wrote: >> I don't use *nix much but shouldn't that be `chown -R ...`? > > Nope, the format of that command on Linux is > chown username.groupname fileselector > Generally chown has to be run as root in order to be allowed to change the > file owner. The command on OS X is nearly the same but the user and group are > separated by a colon, not a period.
-R means "recursive", and yes, you probably did want to have used that option so that all items in the directory, and not just the directory itself, have their ownership corrected.
