'chown' and hidden directories

[Michael Hipp]

Tim Wunder wrote:
> 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 .]*

That's sorta what I thought, but that would still allow it to chew on '.' . 
But I guess that's won't hurt.

Michael