I ran chown -R root:root * by mistake in my home folder when I had root privilege (actually I was supposed to do that in other folder :-/) How do I revert back?
This is not duplicate of what it is showing up. I don't have any problem with .gvfs; folders that were affected were Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, and Videos. By default, shell globbing * does not include hidden files.
Run this command:
sudo chown -R ${USER}:$(id -g -n $USER) ~/*
sudo: Run the following command as root.chown: Change the owner of a file/folder
-R: Recursive (apply that owner to a folder and its content)${USER}:$(id -gn)
${USER}: A variable that contains your username by default.:: This splits the username from the group.$(id -gn) This returns the group, however it should be same as user.
$(): This is a command substitution, all the code in the inner of these tags will be executed, and then this will act as a variable that contains the output of these commands.id: Prints user and group information for the specified USERNAME, or (when USERNAME omitted) for the current user.-gn: (abbreviation of -g -n)-g: Print only the effective group ID.-n: Print the group name instead of the group ID.~/*: Do all these things on all the contents of the home folder.
