'chown' and hidden directories

Michael Hipp Michael
Thu Feb 17 14:23:21 PST 2005


How do you get chown to do hidden directories?

If I have a directory tree with a bunch of stuff in it and I want to 
change the ownership of it all I thought to do:

   chown -R michael: *

But this does everything except hidden ".foo" directories. Is there some 
simple construct that will cause chown to hit all files and directories 
including hidden ones?

Thanks,
Michael


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