[vsurfer]

How do I chmod & chown recursively?
I'd prefer to do this via the command line than go thru each directory and files within
(-so my 6 year old can have some of my spaceships!- he's pretty p.o.'d right now . . .)

man chmod and man chown are not elucidating,

I've tried -r but this seems to be an illegal option.

- also curious -- anyone know any good 'foreach' type scripts that would work in this context?

[VEGAN]

Originally posted by vsurfer:
How do I chmod & chown recursively?
I'd prefer to do this via the command line than go thru each directory and files within
(-so my 6 year old can have some of my spaceships!- he's pretty p.o.'d right now . . .)

man chmod and man chown are not elucidating,

I've tried -r but this seems to be an illegal option.

- also curious -- anyone know any good 'foreach' type scripts that would work in this context?

it's R not r

[vsurfer]

Originally posted by VEGAN:
it's R not r

Thanks,
Funny I tried that several times (from both our accounts) and no luck - maybe I needed to log out that user. Because I came back the next day after restart and the ownerships/perms were fixed the way he (6 yr-old) wanted them the next time we logged him in.

Just to make sure it was no fluke, as if such a thing were even possible, I ran a test on some test directories/files and -R worked fine.

Cheers