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

On 2008-07-29, Rahul <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I tried going to /home/foouser/ and then doing a 'chown -R foouser *'

try

chown -R foouser ~foouser

by default * expansion does not see .* files

i

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!


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