Re: [Help-bash] How to safely work on files/dirs with .

[doark]

On Sat, 12 Mar 2016 18:48:37 Bob Proulx wrote:
> 
> David Niklas wrote:
> > The other day I tried to change the perms of the files in a temporary
> > home dir as root with
> > % chown -R test:test /home/test/.*  
> 
> Only the dot files?  Not all of the files?  Why not all of the files?
All the other files I had already affected the change to.

As a response to everyone, I found you advice quite helpful. The part
about the history of .* files/dirs was interesting, I had wondered
about that.

Thanks, David