'chown' and hidden directories

[Matthew Carpenter]

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Honestly it doesn't.  I tried it before sending it, because I was also
going to include .[^.]?* which would require another character after the
.  but it wasn't necessary.


Michael Hipp wrote:
| 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
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