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I had one simple question. What means (do) recursive in, for example, chmod -R 777 /mnt/disk...
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What -R (recursive) do in chmod -R
I had one simple question. What means (do) recursive in, for example, chmod -R 777 /mnt/disk
- 12-04-2010 #2Linux User
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Without -R you would just modify the access rights for the directory, with -R you also change them for its contents. See the man page for chmod for more details.
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Thanks for fast and helpful replay
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