[geeks] chown usage and dot files

[Phil Stracchino]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 12:25:26PM -0500, Kevin wrote:
> Any one know how to tell chonw/chmod/chgrp how to also affect dot
> files as well as others?  I know the "-R" option is for recursive but
> it ignores anything that is .*

It shouldn't.  How are you invoking it?

If you have a directory foo containing files .foorc, bar and baz, and
you chown or chmod -R foo/*, then obviously that won't pick up
foo/.foorc.  But if you chmod or chown -R foo, then it should pick up
everything within foo, including .foorc.

If you want to chown/chmod everything including dotfiles without doing
the parent directory as well, then try this:

chmod -R 644 * .??*


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