On Sun, 27 Apr 1997, Josh Hope wrote:

> Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 12:53:58 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Josh Hope <root@hick.com>
> To: port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG
> Subject: Changing group/user access to a file
> 
> I'd like to change the group and user access to a file. I've looked at the
> chmod page, but I don't see anything mentioning this...
> 
> 2 drwxrwxr-x   3 root  wheel  512 Apr 27 04:28 irc/
> 
> I'd like to change root wheel to irc irc. What's the command?

how about this:

chown irc:irc irc


I believe that their may be a flag to make this recursive for all files in
the directory, but if you just want to change the one directory ownership,
then the above should work.

-Greg Evans (gevans@televar.com)

								        
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