13 Mar
2009
13 Mar
'09
4:08 p.m.
Hi,
2009/3/13 steveydoteu alug@stevey.eu:
Chris, with your vast "experiences" you so often speak of, surely you would have found an alternate to the god awful use of chown and a wildcard expansion by now?
There's nothing terribly wrong with the command Chris posted. Sure, in nice circumstances, it will chown half your filesystem. :)
I did something similar once, as root. Wanted to chown hidden files, and did chown -R foouser:foogroup .* Sure, I realised my mistake, recovered the permissions. But I became a better user as a direct result.
Besides, what would *you* suggest, after the fact, now that you have flamed Chris? ;)
Srdjan