Re: Set group seting to multiple files

[Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org>]

martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> writes:

> having now checked it (chmod -R u+r ~/* is a non-destructive way in
> 98% of the cases), it seems that things changed. the reason i warned

chmod -R u+r ~/* is always (and has always been) non-destructive.  But
it's not complete, since it won't chmod dotfiles.  This leads people
to try

chmod -R u+r ~/* ~/.*

which _is_ destructive.  

In a case like that, it's always much better to do

chmod -R u+r ~

which works correctly.

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