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

Rahul <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I tried a 'chown -R foouser .*' [...and broke the parent directory...]
But then again: how does one tackle dirs of the sort .ssh/ .vim/ etc.?

chown -R foouser * .??*
or
find . -depth chown foouser {} \;

Chris
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References:
- confusing behaviour of the * wildcard when handling "dot" files and dirs.
  - From: Rahul
- Re: confusing behaviour of the * wildcard when handling "dot" files and dirs.
  - From: Allen Kistler
- Re: confusing behaviour of the * wildcard when handling "dot" files and dirs.
  - From: Rahul

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