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New to using CLI OS.

So I tried changing the owner of a particular folder from root to my user so I can avoid errors of access denied whenever I would publish my dotnet app.

Basically, this is the folder structure.

myAppFolder
 |
 ->myApp
   |
   ->All forders that make the app(folders, .cs, .sln and the likes)
   ->publish
   ->README.md

When I use ls -lart on myAppFolder it says that the owner is the root. Though when I go inside and ls -lart in it some files/folders' owner is my user already. I figured that if I use 'sudo chown -R user myAppFolder' it should also change the owner of all it's subfolders because of the recursive flag. (Correct me if I'm wrong.) But when I did execute the command the ownership did not change to my user. Is there something I'm missing here? Is my understanding of the used command wrong?

EDIT: The referenced Change folder permissions and ownership is where I actually got the command I used, I just edited it to 'sudo chown -R user myAppFolder' because I was already in the folder that contained myAppfolder which is /apps.

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try this command in your terminal 

sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /path/to/myAppFolder

this is duplicate of this question Change folder permissions and ownership

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