Re: possible bug?

[Andreas Schwab]

"Duane Cox" <address@hidden> 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
>
>
> address@hidden:/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.

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