Preserved Topic: 2 Linux Commands, what do they do? (Page 1 of 1)

chgrp -R cvs .
chmod ug+rwx . CVSROOT

What do these do?

I think the first on changes the group to CVS
and the second I don't know what it's doing...

Thanks,



- Biggie

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Before I begin disecting your commands I would reccomend you use the commands
man chgrp
man chmod

The . would symbolise the current working directory. It is normally refered to as ./, this means I could be wrong on the whole . issue but I don't believe I am.

chgrp -R cvs .
This command recursively changes all file in the current directory up to be owned by the cvs group. The -R is the recursive switch cvs is the group the . is the current directory.

chmod ug+rwx . CVSROOT

This one is file permissions, u means user, g means group, the rwx is read write execute. This adds read write and execute permissions for the current user and the group to the the local directory and the file CVSROOT.

Using the command ls -al will let you see how these changes take effect. Running a man ls wouldn't hurt either.

-Dan-

Ok thanks chief! You've been a big help!



- Biggie

- Face the Present
- AIM: MASKKKK

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