Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 15:24:05 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: chown broken?? Message-ID: <20021220212405.GA1963@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20021220212057.GB75223@gothmog.gr> References: <20021220123728.S52840-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar> <BA28B451.56C2%kkb@breathhost.net> <20021220200053.GA89493@dan.emsphone.com> <20021220212057.GB75223@gothmog.gr>
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In the last episode (Dec 20), Giorgos Keramidas said: > On 2002-12-20 14:00, Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> wrote: > > In the last episode (Dec 20), Kurt Bigler said: > > > I don't know zsh, but if it has a setting that prevents wildcard > > > expansion from including .. as a match for .* that strikes me as an > > > all-around good thing. > > > > zsh's rules are that no filename generation pattern ever matches the > > files `.' or `..'. There is also a GLOB_DOTS option that when set > > makes * match files starting with a dot as well. You can enable > > GLOB_DOTS for a single pattern by using a glob qualifier: *(D) > > That's no good either. How does someone `chmod 700 .' with zsh then? `chmod 700 .', of course :) The rule only applies to wildcards (i.e. filename generation patterns). -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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