[Linux-disciples] 'find' and chown

[Stephen R Laniel]

Using chown or chmod with the '-R' option, if you ask it to
set permissions for dotfiles, seems to be a mistake. I've
made that mistake a few times before: it starts recursing
through the entire filesystem, because it's copying even the
files '.' and '..'.

The alternative I use now is 'find'; I just do

find . -exec chown [blah] '{}' ';'

This gets both dotfiles and non-dotfiles, and only recurses
through subdirectories of the current directory. Is that the
only way to do what I want? 

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