I like those, but a lazy way to just get the dot files is: chown -R guest:users .??* This will not match single character dot files, but I don't have too many of those. >>> esper at sherohman.org 02/20/02 02:06PM >>> >>On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 01:48:03PM -0600, Chad C. Walstrom wrote: >>> On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 01:10:57PM -0600, David Blevins wrote: >>> chown -R guest.users .* >> bash$ find <path> -exec chown guest:users \{\} \; >chown -R guest:users * .[^.]*