Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 08:21:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> To: Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za> Cc: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /root:"chmod 600 .*" nothing work now Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980616081408.24104A-100000@java.dpcsys.com> In-Reply-To: <19980616120752.H26576@cityip.co.za>
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On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Johann Visagie wrote: > > BTW, the command you wanted was chmod 600 .??* > > But that would miss out any file whose name is a period followed by a single > character, e.g. ".a". The original poster wanted to chmod root's dotfiles, .login, .cshrc etc. But you're right that mine would miss single character dot files. > What about: > > $ chmod 600 .??* .[!.] I always try ls -l pattern before doing anything potentially dangerous that relyies on shell expansion. Knowing for certain what the expansion will be can be comforting when issuing an rm -r :) Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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