ssh help

[efootball]

Hallo

I have just transfered my files for my old shared hosting provider using the wget ftp command in ssh. now each file has the owner root, i can change each one, one by one, but with 14k would take ages.

I can remember using a ssh command that changes each file, but i carnt remember the command or find it on the internet

can anyone help

thanks

[thisisit3]

chown -R user:group *

-R means to recurse into all directories and subdirectories, the user name and group name are separated by a ":" and the * means everything.

i believe the above may skip files/dirs in the current directory which start with a dot, like ".htaccess", so you might run the same command a second time like:

chown user:group ".*"

(don't use -R otherwise you'll end up recursing downwards out of the current dir)

You may also use "find", like:

for files only:

find . -iname "*" -type f | xargs chown user:group

for directories only:

find . -iname "*" -type d | xargs chown user:group

[jason]

You would want to use

chown -R owner:group /path/of/files/to/change

Note that the -R option is capitalized and it is case-sensitive.

Change owner and group with the user name and group name to which you want to change ownership and the /path/of/files... to the actual path.

Good luck.

--Jason

[jason]

D'oh thisisit3 beat me to the answer.

[thisisit3]

whoz da man? whoz da man!

[Vin DSL]

whoz da man? whoz da man!

You rang?!?!

[thisisit3]

hehehe good one