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

Tyler J. Wagner tyler at tolaris.com
Sat Sep 18 21:42:13 BST 2010


On Saturday 18 Sep 2010 11:38:18 Alan Lord (News) wrote:
> 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.

Dude! If I had known that fifteen years ago, I'd have done ... well, a little 
less typing over the years. Very handy. Thanks!

Tyler

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