Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 12:07:52 +0200 From: Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za> To: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>, Malartre <malartre@aei.ca> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /root:"chmod 600 .*" nothing work now Message-ID: <19980616120752.H26576@cityip.co.za> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980615192559.15772A-100000@java.dpcsys.com>; from Dan Busarow on Mon, Jun 15, 1998 at 07:35:30PM -0700 References: <3585D0EB.389AA3D7@aei.ca> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980615192559.15772A-100000@java.dpcsys.com>
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On Mon, 15 Jun 1998 at 19:35 SAT, Dan Busarow 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". What about: $ chmod 600 .??* .[!.] AFAIK the use of '!' to negate is shell-dependent. (I seem to recall reading an article about "getting all the dotfiles" in Unix Power Tools.) -- V Johann Visagie | Email: wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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