[Gllug] How to chmod selectively without writing a script

[Stig Brautaset]

At Tuesday, 01 October 2002, you wrote:
>why does
>
>chmod -R 644 *
>
>.... affect all subdirectory files while
>
>chmod -R 644 *.* only affects the current directory?

My bet is that your subdirectories does not 
have a dot in their names. In the shell, *.* matches
any name with at least one full stop (dot) in them. 


Stig
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