From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 20 13:21:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C52437B401 for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 13:21:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11C9E43EDE for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 13:21:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-b134.otenet.gr [212.205.244.142]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBKLL4QK016802; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 23:21:05 +0200 (EET) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBKLKwXU019042; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 23:21:03 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gBKLKvcJ019031; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 23:20:57 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 23:20:57 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Dan Nelson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: chown broken?? Message-ID: <20021220212057.GB75223@gothmog.gr> References: <20021220123728.S52840-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar> <20021220200053.GA89493@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021220200053.GA89493@dan.emsphone.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-12-20 14:00, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Dec 20), Kurt Bigler said: > > I don't know zsh, but if it has a setting that prevents wildcard > > expansion from including .. as a match for .* that strikes me as an > > all-around good thing. > > zsh's rules are that no filename generation pattern ever matches the > files `.' or `..'. There is also a GLOB_DOTS option that when set > makes * match files starting with a dot as well. You can enable > GLOB_DOTS for a single pattern by using a glob qualifier: *(D) That's no good either. How does someone `chmod 700 .' with zsh then? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message