Change Made Easy

Change owner, mode, and group of an entire directory all at once using chown. For example, chown -R a+rw joe:dev dir makes dir and everything in dir world-readable and -writeable, and sets owner to joe and group to dev.
Wednesday, March 1st, 2006

Change owner, mode, and group of an entire directory all at once using chown. For example, chown -R a+rw joe:dev dir makes dir and everything in dir world-readable and -writeable, and sets owner to joe and group to dev.

Martin Streicher is the founder of Locomotive, an expert Rails consultancy. Formerly, he was Editor-in-Chief of Linux Magazine from 2002 to 2007. You can contact him at martin.streicher@linux-mag.com and follow him on Twitter.

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