Re: chown question
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
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> 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
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