On Fri, November 10, 2006 9:36 pm, Erin Sharmahd wrote: >> 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 >
Actually, this one confuses me, because I have on many occasions used .*, and I use bash exclusively, and this has never been a problem for me. Maybe this is from years ago, but in at least the last four or five years, it hasn't behaved this way. -- Matthew Walker Kydance Hosting & Consulting LAMP Specialist /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
