[Linux-disciples] 'find' and chown

[Dylan Thurston]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 04:47:15PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> 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 '..'.

What do you mean, 'ask it to set permissions for dotfiles'?  I just
checked, and 'chown -R go-r .' by itself does what I expect: remove
read permissions from everything in the curren directory, including
dotfiles.

Peace,
	Dylan
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