'chown' and hidden directories

[Ben Duncan]

YOu can GO up one directory, lets say you are in /home/imauser
then

  cd /home
  chown -R imauser:users /home/imauser

and it WILL get anything sub to /home/imauser, hidden or not ...

Aakin N. Patel wrote:
> : >chown -R michael: .*
> : 
> : I tried that. It does bad things as it also does '.' and '..'.
> 
> I usually do "chown -R .???*" - that takes care of it.
> It won't do any hidden directories with names of less than
> two characters, but I don't have any, so it's okay for me.
> Might not be applicable in all cases.
> 
> 						- Aakin
> : 
> : Thanks,
> : Michael
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