Re: confusing behaviour of the * wildcard when handling "dot" files and dirs.

Allen Kistler <ackistler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:e6Njk.15713$xZ.11898@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

You're not missing anything.
That's the design.
It keeps you from changing the current directory, the parent
directory, and (in the case of -R) all the children of the parent
directory.


Ah! That explains the mess I created then! :-(

I tried a 'chown -R foouser .*' and screwed up tons of user permissions
since it acted on the .. dir too which wasn't the way I intended. My stupid
mistake.

But then again: how does one tackle dirs of the sort .ssh/ .vim/ etc.? If
these also reside under /home/foouser and I want to chown them don't I need
to have a way to wildcard them? (by going up one level and doing a chown -R
foouser /home/foouser/ seems an option...)


--
Rahul
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