Douglas A. Tutty wrote: [...] > I know that I could have used find to look for all files owned by the > old UID, plunked it through xargs and chowned them that way, but is > there a way, as root, to chown directly the hidden files without > chowning the whole box? > > Just for my future reference?
I found this suggestion from some message board* $ chown user:group .[!.]* That uses the shell pattern matching to exclude '..' by skipping any files whose second character is a dot. Unfortunately it will also skip any hidden files with names like '..filename' *http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447626+1246551046034+28353475&threadId=966579 - Chris B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org