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

[Doug Moen]

I would use the glob pattern .??* which excludes one and two character file names such as "." and "..".

On Fri, Dec 9, 2022, at 4:04 AM, 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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