'chown' and hidden directories

[Brad De Vries]

I don't think there's any option to chown that causes it to traverse
hidden directories but you could try specifying them on the command
line with a wildcard:
  chown -R michael: * .[A-z0-9]*

Brad.


On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:23:10 -0600, Michael Hipp <Michael at hipp.com> wrote:
> 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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