[ubuntu-uk] Pasting home directory into new and version upgrade installs?

[Alan Lord (News)]

On 18/09/10 11:27, Jonathon Fernyhough wrote:
>
> Another handy trick after copying /home/user to the new install is to do
>
> $ sudo chown -R user:user /home/user

Just a hint.

sudo chown -R user: /home/user

will do the same thing. You do not need to add the group name after the 
colon.

man chown:

"Group is unchanged if missing, but changed to login group if implied by 
a `:' following a symbolic  OWNER"


Al


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