'chown' and hidden directories

[Michael Hipp]

Ken Moffat wrote:
> 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?

I believe the one above is the simplest. I didn't have the courage to try some 
of the others :-)

Even worse, I found out that chown does not behave as (I) expected:

   chown -R michael: *

behaves differently than

   chown -R michael: /path/to/target

The latter processes dot-hidden directories, the first does not. Perhaps this 
is intentional, but it looks like a bug to me.

Thoughts?

Michael