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@daniello yeah hes lucky linux doesn't recognize that command.
Btw. Same thing i did! I posted about my chmod adventure this week ;) -
@raymsmith if you want to chown the current directory and all children, you just need to do
chown -R user:group .
No need for ./* -
@gilgameshcoder It was on an ubuntu box but luckily I caught my mistake before it did too much damage.
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@Shodan lol, if it had been rm I wouldn't have ranted about it. I'd still be lying in the fetal position questioning my life.
Intended to type
sudo chown -R name:name ./*
Instead typed
sudo chown-R name:name /*
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