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

royeo · 06-01-2007, 01:53 PM

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

kav · 06-01-2007, 01:54 PM

check the man page, it's either -r or -R

sydney-troz · 06-01-2007, 01:55 PM

chown -R ID directory

jay73 · 06-01-2007, 01:55 PM

You can use a username instead of an ID as well, of course.