Re: [ALUG] How to refer to 'all my files', including hidden ones?

ls -A | xargs chown -R chris ?

On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 21:04 +0000, Chris G wrote:

I often have this problem! :-)

How can one refer to all one's own files and directories easily?

E.g. I am sitting at /home/chris and, for whatever reason, I want to apply a command to all the files, including hidden files.

A command like this for example (where I have moved some files in which belong to someone else), I become root and do:-

chown -R chris *

Well, that's OK but it doesn't include hidden files, so:-

chown -R chris .*

That's no good either because it tries to run the command on .. as well as . and the hidden files.

There are things like:-

chown -R chris .[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z]*

but it feels like there should be an easier way. I know there's better syntax than [a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z]* (using + I think), but it's still hardly elegant.