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Re: possible bug?
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Paul Jarc |
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Re: possible bug? |
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Tue, 21 Sep 2004 11:17:27 -0400 |
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"Duane Cox" <address@hidden> wrote:
> Apparently chown also grabs .. all the way up to /home and changes
> that ownership as well as any users in /home
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> address@hidden:/home/dcox# chown -Rv dcox.users .*
The pattern ".*" matches "..", so chown sees ".." as one of its
arguments and dutifully processes that directory. Since you're using
-R, you probably want to use just "." instead.
paul