'chown' and hidden directories

[Matthew Carpenter]

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chown -R michael: .[^.]*



Michael Hipp wrote:
| Net Llama! wrote:
|
|> On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Michael Hipp 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?
|>
|>
|>
|> chown -R michael: .*
|
|
| I tried that. It does bad things as it also does '.' and '..'.
|
| Thanks,
| Michael
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