Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 16:05:32 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> To: Andrew Cutler <andrew@1stelement.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: chown broken?? Message-ID: <20021220150532.GD6845@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> In-Reply-To: <1040390551.921.36.camel@localhost> References: <1040390551.921.36.camel@localhost>
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# andrew@1stelement.com / 2002-12-21 00:22:32 +1100:
> I just hosed one of my boxes by recursively setting all my file
> permissions incorrectly:
>
> $ su
> $ cd /data
> $ chown -R andrew:wheel *
> $ chown -R andrew:wheel .*
apart from what others said about wildcard substitution:
roman@freepuppy /usr 1005:1 > ls -l .*
zsh: no matches found: .*
roman@freepuppy /usr 1006:1 >
IOW, the behavior is actually shell- (and shell configuration-)
dependent. zsh (at least with my settings) would protect you from
yourself in this situation.
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