[kwlug-disc] chown .* without traversing directories?

[William Park]

You probably have to name them explicitly, like .[a-zA-Z0-9]* or .[^.]*

On 2022-12-09 04:04, Ronald Barnes wrote:
> 
> Hey,
> 
> I'm trying to chown some "dot" files but I do not want to traverse UP 
> the directory tree, but I do want to recursively traverse subdirectories.
> 
> 
> If I run:
> 
> chown -vR www-data: ./.*
> 
> 
> It goes up (towards / aka root), but I don't want that.
> 
> 
> What am I overlooking here?  Seems I'm overlooking something very obvious.
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> rb
> 
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