Date: 21 Dec 2002 00:36:36 +1100 From: Andrew Cutler <andrew@1stelement.com> To: setantae@submonkey.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: chown broken?? Message-ID: <1040391396.921.43.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20021220132634.GA6498@submonkey.net> References: <1040390551.921.36.camel@localhost> <20021220132634.GA6498@submonkey.net>
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I realise that now, but why does chown not ignore the match since most
other commands simply return?
. is a directory -- ignored
.. is a directory -- ignored
This inconsistency is not logical.
On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 00:26, Ceri Davies wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 12:22:32AM +1100, Andrew Cutler wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> >
> >
> > I just hosed one of my boxes by recursively setting all my file
> > permissions incorrectly:
> >
> > $ su
> > $ cd /data
> > $ chown -R andrew:wheel *
> > $ chown -R andrew:wheel .*
>
> That matches "..".
>
> Ceri
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Andrew Cutler <andrew@1stelement.com>
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