Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Mike Roy
[08-14-05 10:28]: As you may remember from 'dumb guy number 1', I saved my old /home/mike directory on a separate HD and was able to recover all of my working files. That's the good news. The bad news is that they all are now listed as ROOT everything (user, group). I know there's commands to change individual files, etc. (chmod, chown), but is there a way I can change the permissions of a directory and all of its contents without doing each file individually?
That is what 'man' files are for.
man chown
chown mike:users -R /home/mike
will reassign owner to mike and group to users for every file/directory under /home/mike and the directory /home/mike.
Hello everyone: That worked!!!! :-) Thanks Mike