On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 8:01 PM, paul g <pj.world at hotmail.com> wrote: > Now what does the [.] mean in the lines you gave? Users Name? right? Nope. In unix/linux systems, the dot character ( . ) refers to the current directory the command is being executed from. So in the example command given (find . -type f -exec chmod 444 {} \;), the dot character is telling find to start operations in the current directory. You could have just as well put a full path in there if you wanted. find /path/to/files -type f -exec chmod 444 {} \; In a similar vein, the double-dot character, ( .. ) always refers to the parent directory. -Erik -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140421/74f6f9a8/attachment.html>