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Subject: Re: chown  broken??
From: Andrew Cutler <andrew@1stelement.com>
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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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