changing permissions for subdirectories

[Jeff Vian]

On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 09:53 +0300, peter kostov wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 07:18 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 19:19 -0500, Benjamin Sher wrote:
> > > Thanks for confirming the issue. Will try to use chown -r directory.
> And you have to change group too...:
> chgrp -R 
> Peter
> > 

not necessarily.
"chown user:group filename" does both at once, and only requires one
command to do so.

> > It's "chown -R", not "chown -r". Many things in Linux/Unix are
> > case-sensitive, so you need to be careful about this.
> > 
> > P.S. Please do not top-post on this mailing list (see
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting)
> > 
> > Paul.
> > -- 
> > Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>
> > 
>