'chown' and hidden directories

[Ben Duncan]

Michael Hipp wrote:
> Ken Moffat wrote:
> 
<SNIP>
> 
> 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.
> 


Not a bug. By specifiying /pathto/target, where target is a directory, the authors'
intenet was to have any thing below said directory set (with the -R) to the specified
owner/group or if chmod, permissions ...

This is done without regards of being a dot file or not.

So in summary <chown/chmod> -R (options) <thisdirectory> says :
This directory and ANYTHING below it, gets changed.


> Thoughts?
> 
> Michael
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