Quoting Peter Serwe peter@infostreet.com:
Scott Silva wrote:
I don't know of an easy way to fix this. Root is dangerous!
Guns aren't dangerous. People are dangerous.
Anyway. In case one wanted to do a little chown'ing above and beyond the scope of most necessity again, the proper way to deal with the -R recursion nightmare is by executing it on .??* and ??*.
That will, of course skip anything that has a 2-character name, but that's usually okay, because it will keep you from recursively chown'ing "..".
Just in case nobody comes out and says it..
Peter
Yep, seems that is how I shot myself in the foot. Thankfully it's still attached. But that command will go into the subfolders, though, correct?
Another suggestion I got, that I should've done, was '/home/user2/chown user2:user2 ../user2/*'. But I think that one is missing something... I may have remembered it wrong. Should've wrote it down...