From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: chown --recursive [OWNER][:[GROUP]] ... doesn't work
Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 08:44:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5744F8BE.5090502@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130608185039.GB9607@calimero.vinschen.de>
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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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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-08 15:47 Vasiliy
2013-06-08 16:06 ` Ruby L. V. Lammert
2013-06-08 18:50 ` chown --recursive [OWNER][:[GROUP]] ... doesn't work Corinna Vinschen
2016-05-25 8:44 ` Eric Blake [this message]
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