Re: Chown problem

[rvb@negoyl.progn.org (René van Bevern)]

Joost Kraaijeveld <J.Kraaijeveld@Askesis.nl> writes:

> panoramix:/home/jkr/MP3# chown -R jkr.jkr *
> chown: invalid option -- =
> Try `chown --help' for more information.
> panoramix:/home/jkr/MP3#

Do you have a filename starting with "-=" there? The shell would
expand this to

   chown -R jkr:jkr -=foo=- file2 file3 file4

And makes chown recognize the followed = as an option.
Try the following, which makes chown ignore "options"

   chown -R jkr:jkr -- *

or this, which expands to: ./-=foo=- ./file2 ./file3

   chown -R jkr:jkr ./*

	René

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