How do I use chown -R to include all hidden files and subdirectories except the parent directory (..)?

Asked Jul 14 '22 at 20:39

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chown -R owner:group dir/* doesn't change hidden files and directories that begin with '.'. chown -R owner:group dir/.* seems to recursively change hidden files and directories but also changes dir/../* which I don't want to happen. How do I recursively change only all files under dir?

asked Jul 14 '22 at 20:39

Paul Dubuc

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chown -hR owner:group dir- does that work? – kanehekili Jul 14 '22 at 20:46
... if you must use a glob (perhaps because you don't want to modify the ownership of dir itself) then you may find the bash shell's dotglob option useful - see for example Execute commands on hidden files – steeldriver Jul 14 '22 at 20:59
@kanehekili That does what I want. Thanks! – Paul Dubuc Aug 01 '22 at 19:03

How do I use chown -R to include all hidden files and subdirectories except the parent directory (..)?

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