> Once (on a work machine) I had messed up the ownership of my home > directory, so I did > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# chown ross.ross -R * > which successfully gave me back ownership of all files in my home > directory ... except for any dot-files. Oops! So I then did: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# chown ross.ross -R .* > > Little did I realize that .* matches not only the normal dot-files, but > also "." and, more importantly, "..". Oops. Technically * matches .. too, > but I believe the shell zaps .. on a normal *, but doesn't for a ".*". > Live and learn, I guess! > > ~ Ross
and that was with bash, i'm guessing. supposedly zsh is much better behaved in this instance, but i haven't actually tested it... at least it wasn't 'rm -rf .*' ~erin -- http://www.tuxgirl.com
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