----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary W. Swearingen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 10:28 PM
Subject: Re: chown broken??
> Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Yes, "the directories named on the command line" within the
> > CURRENT directory. Technically, "." and ".." are entries within
> > the current directory (try: "od -c ."), and they have inode numbers
> > too. But that does not deter me from deeming it a bit counter-
> > intuitive to consider ".." a directory of the current directory. :)
> > Especially in the context of recursion.
>
> The manpage explicitly mentions neither directories or recursion,
Indeed; and I was going to mention this too, as the man page seems to have
gone out of its way to avoid the word "recursion" and "directrory".
-R Change the user ID and/or the group ID for the file hierarchies
rooted in the files instead of just the files themselves.
Then I looked at the man page for "cp -R .*", which acts like "chown -R .*",
and read:
-R If source_file designates a directory, cp copies the directory and
the entire subtree connected at that point.
Now, see, this is legible to me. :)
- Mark
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