'chown' and hidden directories

[Tim Wunder]

On Thursday 17 February 2005 9:18 pm, someone claiming to be Michael Hipp 
wrote:
> Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> > chown -R michael: .[^.]*
>
> I'm staring at this one with a really dumb look on my face. Can someone
> clue me in as to how it works or what it does?
>

If I'm not mistaken, any file that begins with a ., and doesn't have a . after 
it
.[not .]*


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