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Re: possible bug?
From: |
Thomas Schwinge |
Subject: |
Re: possible bug? |
Date: |
Tue, 21 Sep 2004 17:19:49 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.4.2.1i |
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
>
>
> address@hidden:/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