'chown' and hidden directories

Ken Moffat kmoffat
Wed Feb 23 01:22:03 PST 2005


How do you get chown to do hidden directories?

> |>>
> |>>> chown -R michael: .[^.]*
> |>>
>
> |>
> |>
> |> If I'm not mistaken, any file that begins with a ., and doesn't have a
> |> . after it
> |> .[not .]*
> |
>

Was there ever a definitive solution to this esoteric problem?




-- 
ken




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