chmod aniskop:aniskop .* -R effect

[aniskop]

Hi

I ran this command in my home directory:

chmod aniskop:aniskop .* -R

Please DON'T run it as root!

It looks like it changes the ownership off all files under $HOME and because ".." is the file it jumps one level up and because it have "-R" it changes everything. Could someone exlain why it's like that?

Maybe it's Linux feature ??

My other question is:how to change ownership off all files that start with .(dot)?

Thanks for help
P

[hughitt1]

To change ownership, don't you normally use "chown" and not "chmod?" Also, perhaps you could use a regular expression to change the permission for all files and folders starting with a period, e.g.

chown aniskop:aniskop .[a-z]*

should change all of the files and folder that have a period followed by a letter and then any combination of characters.

Hope this helps!
Keith
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