On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 16:34 -0600, Larry Brower wrote:
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On 02/28/2011 07:47 AM, Alain Spineux wrote:
>> So I did SUDO -i, and from root as shell I tried to
>> chown -hR * fcassia on the Desktop folder...
>
> You must switch the star and our user name
>
> chown -hR fcassia *
>
>>
You should also avoid doing chown -R with just a * wildcard as this
could possibly recursively follow ../ which would then try and change
ownership on things you don't want changed.
The Shell will not normally expand * to a name beginning with ".". Try
it:
$ echo *
See "info bash":
When a pattern is used for filename expansion, the character `.' at
the start of a filename or immediately following a slash must be
matched explicitly, unless the shell option `dotglob' is set.
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