try
chown -R bmike1:bmike1 documents
~Micah
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Michael
> Havens
> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 10:52 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: chown difficulties
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> I pulled some M$ files top linux and have been unable to chown.
> What am I doing wrong?
> --
> <:-)Mike(-:>
>
> bmike1@0[Documents]$ ls -l
> total 20
> drwxr-xr-x 2 bmike1 bmike1 4096 2004-04-18 06:40 Archive
> drw-rw-rw- 3 bmike1 root 4096 2004-05-11 22:20 documents
> drwxr-xr-x 3 bmike1 bmike1 4096 2004-05-11 21:23 Finances
> drwxr-xr-x 10 bmike1 bmike1 4096 2004-05-03 19:50 Pictures
> drwxr-xr-x 8 bmike1 bmike1 4096 2004-05-09 20:35 Programs
> bmike1@0[Documents]$ sudo chown -R bmike1 documents
> bmike1@0[Documents]$ ls -l
> total 20
> drwxr-xr-x 2 bmike1 bmike1 4096 2004-04-18 06:40 Archive
> drw-rw-rw- 3 bmike1 root 4096 2004-05-11 22:20 documents
> drwxr-xr-x 3 bmike1 bmike1 4096 2004-05-11 21:23 Finances
> drwxr-xr-x 10 bmike1 bmike1 4096 2004-05-03 19:50 Pictures
> drwxr-xr-x 8 bmike1 bmike1 4096 2004-05-09 20:35 Programs
> bmike1@0[Documents]$ sudo chown bmike1 documents
> bmike1@0[Documents]$ ls -l
> total 20
> drwxr-xr-x 2 bmike1 bmike1 4096 2004-04-18 06:40 Archive
> drw-rw-rw- 3 bmike1 root 4096 2004-05-11 22:20 documents
> drwxr-xr-x 3 bmike1 bmike1 4096 2004-05-11 21:23 Finances
> drwxr-xr-x 10 bmike1 bmike1 4096 2004-05-03 19:50 Pictures
> drwxr-xr-x 8 bmike1 bmike1 4096 2004-05-09 20:35 Programs
> bmike1@0[Documents]$
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