I realise that now, but why does chown not ignore the match since most
other commands simply return?
. is a directory -- ignored
.. is a directory -- ignored
This inconsistency is not logical.
On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 00:26, Ceri Davies wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 12:22:32AM +1100, Andrew Cutler wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> >
> >
> > I just hosed one of my boxes by recursively setting all my file
> > permissions incorrectly:
> >
> > $ su
> > $ cd /data
> > $ chown -R andrew:wheel *
> > $ chown -R andrew:wheel .*
>
> That matches "..".
>
> Ceri
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