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Hi,

I am trying to change the permissions of all subdirectories and files a directory mydir, included all files in all the subdirectorie. The command chown -R mydir don't suffice, as most of the subdirectories and files start with a . and/or contains whitespace. Any suggestions?

Regards

What version of chown are you using? if I run chown -R username:groupname mydir/ it works on all files... including . files. I just tried it.

to give everyone write permission:


Edit: this assumes that you *really* want to change permissions, not ownership

Yes, you are right, chown -R newowner:newgrp mydir/ does it. That's what I thought I used in the first place, so I must have had a typo (I often do...). Thanks anyway.