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[Pete Smout]

On 16 September 2013 19:05, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16 September 2013 19:02, William Scott Lockwood III
> <vladinator at gmail.com> wrote:
>> At which point the command likely fails to have the desired effect. if
>> pete is just a regular user, he's likely screwed. If pete is in
>> sudoers, he can preface that command with sudo, and it will then work,
>> though it won't get hidden files and directories. a better command
>> would be
>>
>> $ sudo chown -R pete:pete .
>>
>> which will get the current directory an all things below it
>> recursively, and will match hidden files.
>
> Ooh, good point. I'd missed both of those points. Well spotted and
> thanks for the correction.
>
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Thanks for the idea, again no joy! oh well start moving '.' files i suppose!

Thanks again

Pete S