Re: Set group seting to multiple files
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 11:28:00AM -0400, Travis Crump wrote:
> 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.
It doesn't make any sense to me either. You can see what chown is doing
by adding the -v flag, and:
[cjwatson@riva ~/tmp]$ sudo chown -v -R www-data svn-dump.*
changed ownership of `svn-dump.142' to www-data
changed ownership of `svn-dump.149' to www-data
There's other stuff under there, so I don't understand why -R on a file
could be bad.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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