Re: Chown Foibles

[Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk>]

On Sat, 05 Jul 2014 23:56:47 +0300
David Baron <d_baron@012.net.il> wrote:

> Continuing to set up my new 64-bit install.
> 
> Any attempt to chown -R thisuser:thisuser /home/thisuser/.*
> 
> For example,to reset permissions of hidden items, will change ALL
> users' home folders, everything. Actually, on the surface, this might
> seem correct behavior because of the '.' This is, of course, a
> catastrophe. Their kde, etc, is unusable.
> 
> How can I do this?

You could try .[a-z]* or similar, but there's almost always going to be
exceptions there. Your safest option is probably to use find.