How to use the .* wildcard in bash but exclude the parent directory (..)?
- by Allan
There are often times that I want to execute a command on all files (including hidden files) in a directory. When I try using
chmod g+w * .*
it changes the permissions on all the files I want (in the directory) and all the files in the parent directory (that I want left alone).
Is there a wildcard that does the right thing or do I need to start using find?