Thread: Quick help required! I accidently used CHOWN and CHMOD at $
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abhishek is offline abhishek
2010-11-11 , 06:29
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Originally Posted by kitwalker View Post
Are you sure the cd didn't succeed? Where did you intend to change directory to? Just before the $ will show the place where you are currently in the file system. If you are in /home/user it should show ~

Was this what was shown before you executed the chown chmod commands?

yes it did not succeed....i learnt late why it didn't ..i was using tab to fill in the folder name while typing...all in a hurry..

i still am not able to do what i intended to sort out...the files in this folder are with permissions -rw-r--r-- which i want to change to -rwxrwxrwx

if i do ls -l i get
-rw-r--r-- 1 user root <size> <sort of timestamp> <filename>

why is chmod -R 777 * not working here?
any idea ?

i tried it at $ and also using sudo gainroot..
didn't work either time..
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