Uwe Thiem wrote: > On Saturday 16 February 2008, Dale wrote: > > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > chown -R user: ~user > > > > What does the "~" make it do different? > > Change user only for those files that have a different one.
No. The ~ prefixed to a user name means the home dir of that user as it is listed in /etc/passwd. Benno -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
