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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