chown --recursive [OWNER][:[GROUP]] ... doesn't work

chown --recursive [OWNER][:[GROUP]] ... doesn't work

[Vasiliy]

chown --recursive <owner> *.* doesn't change ownership for all files,
single files are proceeded ok

$ uname -srvm
CYGWIN_NT-6.1 1.7.20(0.266/5/3) 2013-06-06 17:36 x86_64

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Ruby

[L. V. Lammert]

Trying to create an install procedure for a simple Ruby script using
rest-client for our remote Windows machines, but Ruby is choking on
openssl [on a newly installed machine - runs fine on my dev VMs]:

$ irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'openssl'
LoadError: No such process - /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/i386-cygwin/openssl.so

ldd is also blocking for some reason on the install machine, if that is
any clue:

	    Dev Machine	    Install Machine
chgcheck	OK		  OK
ldd		OK		no return!


The only clues I have found online refer to compiling Ruby with an SSL
flag, but I have not compiled Ruby on my dev platform, and would prefer to
not compile when installation on a remote machine.

ALso found some 'installer generator gems', but the most promising one,
ocra, does not run under Cygwin!

Any pointers to the source of the problem or a possible installer for Ruby
apps that works under Cygwin would be greately appreciated, ..

	TIA!!

	Lee

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Re: chown --recursive [OWNER][:[GROUP]] ... doesn't work

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jun  8 17:47, Vasiliy wrote:
> chown --recursive <owner> *.* doesn't change ownership for all files,

Wrong pattern.  *.* doesn't match files without dot.  Try

  chmod -R * .*


Corinna

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Re: chown --recursive [OWNER][:[GROUP]] ... doesn't work

[Eric Blake]

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On 06/08/2013 12:50 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jun  8 17:47, Vasiliy wrote:
>> chown --recursive <owner> *.* doesn't change ownership for all files,
> 
> Wrong pattern.  *.* doesn't match files without dot.  Try
> 
>   chmod -R * .*

Umm, that changes .. and its children, too, which is probably not what
you want. That, and long command lines can be problematic if the glob
expands to too much, you might have issues if there are no matches the
glob, and you have problems if any files begin with '-'.

Better is:

chmod -R owner .

and let chmod do the recursion over all files in '.' itself without
having to worry about how to glob all of them.

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