Is there a command that gives you ownership of a folder and all it's sub-folders

royeo · 01-Jun-2007, 03:58 PM #1

I have Fedora Core 5 and use KDE.

I am able to change ownership of a folder with "chown ID directory" (no quotes). But I would like to be able to change the ownership of that folder/directory and all sub-folders. Can someone tell me if it's possible and if so, how to do it?

Thanks,

royeo

dodgyphil · 01-Jun-2007, 06:19 PM #2

That ones not too hard. There are not too many switches but -R (must be capitol).

chown -R user:group /directory

Cheers
PhilD

vtel57 · 01-Jun-2007, 11:15 PM #3

When in doubt about how a command works:

Code:

 $ man <command>

< and > signifies that something needs to be entered here. For example, if you wanted to read the manual page for the chown command:

Code:

 $ man chown

Luck!

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