On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 10:05:53AM -0500, Duane Cox wrote: > 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 > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/dcox# chown -Rv dcox.users .* > ...
You told chown to operate on files and directories recursively and '.*' also matches '..'. 'chown' is behaving correctly. Regards, Thomas _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
