Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > 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? > > Instead of >> r...@plot:/home/dtbrowser# chown -R dtbrowser.dtbrowser .* > > do > r...@plot:/home/dtbrowser# chown -R dtbrowser.dtbrowser /home/dtbrowser/.*
Hi Johannes, Wouldn't the shell still expand the argument list to include '/home/dtbrowser/..' and result in the same problem? - Chris B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
