I am working on a test machine.
I just discovered that I have misunderstood the way the following command is run.
This command do exactly what I want. Change the owner of every things from the named folder and in all child folders.
But of course it leave untouched all hidden object like '.some_dir' and '.some_file'
So I run the following command ( and problem arise )
I can see on the screen that the command is climbing up one directory level doing something like
What is the correct command to change every things without climbing up one level.
hello
chown not change ownership
before:
205:system ~kuku
chown kuku:system ~kuku
after no change
205:system ~kuku
aix box
can someone help me?
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