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Re: Set group seting to multiple files



On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 05:20:48PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 08:07:24AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote:
> > I did this once, then panicked and halted the process when I heard 
> > a lot of disk activity.  The problem is (I think) that the wildcard
> > matches the .. file and the process recurses back into the parent
> > directory, etc.
> 
> '*' doesn't match .. in normal (POSIX) shells. '.*' does, though.

I'm pretty sure I used the latter construct, since (I dimly recall)
I was trying to operate on files with a '.' in the name.  Thanks for
the clarification.  This defuses martin's warning to an extent, but
it's a gotcha that got me, and a learning experience.

-- 
Ken Irving <jkirving@mosquitonet.com>



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