%% Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ds> Changing it to:
ds> find . -name .[^.] -print0 | xargs -0 chmod r-owx Not to be anal retentive, but ITYM: ... -name '.[^.]*' ... Your glob won't match anything except ".x" where x is exactly one character long but != ".". -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> HASMAT--HA Software Methods & Tools "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These are my opinions---Nortel Networks takes no responsibility for them.