chown & chgrp

[Mark Mitchell]

I know that I am missing something here. What is the way to change the group and owner for a directory and at the same time all of its lower directories and files too? I know that there is a quick way to do it so that you don't have to fish around all of the sub-directories to make the same change.

[Volker Borowski · Accepted solution]

Hi Mark,

chown -R user:group dirname

does both (grp and own) in one statement.

Volker

[Rita C Workman]

I think you may be meaning:

chown -R user:group directory_name

Just a thought,
/rcw

[Mark Mitchell]

Thanks for helping my brain freeze