also sprach Travis Crump <pretzalz@techhouse.org> [2002.09.12.1728 +0200]:
> >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.
/music/mp3/* includes .. and since you are doing things the recursive
way...
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