[CentOS] Re: chown command goof up

Mon Feb 12 23:05:11 UTC 2007
Peter Serwe <peter at infostreet.com>

Scott Silva wrote:
> I don't know of an easy way to fix this. Root is dangerous!
>   
Guns aren't dangerous.  People are dangerous.

Anyway.  In case one wanted to do a little chown'ing above and beyond
the scope of most necessity again, the proper way to deal with the -R 
recursion
nightmare is by executing it on .??* and ??*.

That will, of course skip anything that has a 2-character name, but 
that's usually
okay, because it will keep you from recursively chown'ing "..".

Just in case nobody comes out and says it..

Peter

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