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

Allen Kistler <ackistler@xxxxxxxxx>:
Rahul wrote:
I tried going to /home/foouser/ and then doing a 'chown -R foouser *'

It seems to change the ownership recursively for all dirs and files under
/home/foouser/ except those starting with a . (dot)

Is this behaviour of the * wildcard by design or am I just missing
something here? I'm confused!

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.

Yes, and the OP's answer is:

chown -R foouser /home/foouser

acting on the dir and children, whatever they may be. "." is special
in *nix shell, as are many other characters. Learning the bash shell
from O'Reilly is a smooth intro, and your distro may offer some
already installed (bash-doc and abs-guide in Debian).


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