In Unix, what do some obscurely named commands stand for?

Indiana University Knowledge Base ^ | 12/31/2087 | author not cited

[zeugma]

chown -R us ./base

while functionally equivalent, I'd say that

chown -R us ./base/*

would better suit the meme

[RansomOttawa]

Or

chown -R us ~your/base/*

or is that too Dick and Jane? (Nonetheless, it took me a minute, so I laughed harder.)

[zeugma]

chown -R us ~your/base/*

I think you're right about it needing the tilde because that implies "your", but you need a / after it. just a "./base" could be anyone's base.

chown -R us ~/base/*

I'm definitely overthinking it now. lol.

I'll admit it took the second pass through the thread before it clicked in my head initially.

 

[RansomOttawa]

chown -R us ~your/base/*

I think you're right about it needing the tilde because that implies "your", but you need a / after it. just a "./base" could be anyone's base.

chown -R us ~/base/*

A tilde by itself stands for your own home directory. However, ~user means user's home directory. (I didn't know what else to name him other than "your.")

I think effectively you're saying "All my base are belong to us." :)

Maybe we are overthinking this. Nerds!

[zeugma]

You’re right. I almost never use the ~userid construct. Matter of fact, I can’t remember if I ever have. I almost always use relative directories when moving from one user to another. (gotta love the “..” directory).

OMG, I’m such a nerd.