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Re: Please exclude ".." and "." in path completion of ".*"
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: Please exclude ".." and "." in path completion of ".*" |
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Sun, 03 Jun 2007 17:22:28 +0200 |
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"Manuel Reimer" <Manuel.Reimer@gmx.de> writes:
> Hello,
>
> yesterday, I tried to just change the owner of a user profile. So I used "cd"
> to get directly into the user directory and used this command, at first:
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> chmod -R $USERNAME *
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> Unfortunately there have been "dot files" in the user profile and so I tried
> this command to catch them:
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> chmod -R $USERNAME .*
You could have just used "." as the argument. Saves a key. :-)
> Another example: How would I kill all files on a mounted removable media?
rm -rf * .[!.]* ..?*
Andreas.
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