On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Gert van den Berg<wine-users@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 17:01, Austin English wrote: >> A script like that would be really easy, something like >> #!/bin/sh >> if [ -d $HOME/.wine ] >> then >> echo ".wine already exists" >> else >> cp -r /opt/samplewineprefix/ $HOME/.wine >> chown -R `whoami` $HOME/.wine >> fi >> exit 0 > > (I know it is only a sample that was not tested, but anyway...) > > If the user do not own the files, the chown would fail. The copy > should set the ownership (because the user is probably unable to > create files owned by another user) > > tar or cp --no-preserve=ownership might if the ownership information > do survive the copy.... > > if the chown does work `whoami` can be replaced with `id -un`:`id -gn` > to change the group as well. To list as well: Of course, good call. -- -Austin
