Re: Changing owners recursively

From: Cameron Simpson (cs_at_zip.com.au)
Date: 01/28/04

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    On 13:50 28 Jan 2004, Ben Yau <byau@cardcommerce.com> wrote:
    | Turn the group sticky bit on for all the directories.

    Nomenclature: it's _not_ the sticky bit! It's the setgid bit.
    The sticky bit is the last one! 

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