martin f krafft wrote:
one warning:
NEVER, i repeat *N*E*V*E*R* use the -R flag to chmod/chgrp/chown if
the final argument is not a directory. for instance
chown -R pierre /music/mp3/*
will eventually change *your entire filesystem* to be owned by
pierre!
Can someone else confirm this because this doesn't make any sense to me and I have never encountered it. I just tried a couple of tests trying to confirm this and was unable to reproduce it.