[SunHELP] chown

[Steffen Grunewald]

On Thu 2001-03-01 (20:03), Alan Rubin wrote:
> would wackiness ensue if you issued a chown command such as:
> 
> chown usera .* from within a directory
> or
> chown usera dir/.*?

I've been told yes, especially if you're using the -R option... Don't
want to try this out, but since .. fits into the .* pattern...

I'm using .??* instead.

Steffen, don't forget it's your own gun that shoots into your knee
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