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Re: chown as root

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Borg)
Thu Nov 7 21:20:53 1996

Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1996 17:50:31 -0800
From: Borg <"vladimip "@iceonline.com>
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Borg wrote:
> 
> Jason,
> 
> You can do:
> 
> cd /; chown -R root *;chgrp -R root *

I just tried that on one of the machines which
I don't depend upon, and hidden files were not
affected. So, the above should have been:

cd /; chown -R root * .*; chgrp -R root * .*

Regards,
Vlad

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