"Duane Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, I'm not sure if this is correct operation, or a bug... > using: coreutils-5.2.1.tar.gz > > I'm in my home dir, changing permissions on hidden files > and folders in my home dir. Apparently chown also grabs .. > all the way up to /home and changes that ownership as > well as any users in /home > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/dcox# chown -Rv dcox.users .*
If you tell chown to recurse through `.' or `..' then it will happily do that. Use .[!.]* instead to not match `.' and `..'. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstra�e 5, 90409 N�rnberg, Germany Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
