This is my very first bug entry. Maybe this is normal behavior. But I never saw this on other Linux machines before (Trusty 14.04 for instance). Please ask back if something is unclear. I wanted to chown hidden files in a subdirectory with chown {user}:{group} -R {folder}/.* The result was, that all folders and subfolders in . have been touched too. Same happens with rm -R {folder}/.*. But removing was refused because I was in ./ That means, {folder}/.* is interpreted also as {folder}/.. Please try: cd /tmp mkdir test mkdir test/test mkdir test/test/folder1 mkdir test/test/folder2 touch test/test/.hiddenfile touch test/test/folder1/.hiddenfile1 touch test/test/folder2/.hiddenfile2 cd test pwd /tmp/test/test ls -lath /tmp/test/test drwxrwxr-x 2 test test 4,0K Jun 6 11:05 folder2 drwxrwxr-x 4 test test 4,0K Jun 6 11:05 . drwxrwxr-x 2 test test 4,0K Jun 6 11:05 folder1 -rw-rw-r-- 1 test test 0 Jun 6 11:05 .hiddenfile drwxr-xr-x 3 test test 4,0K Jun 6 11:04 .. # change folder1 and subfolders to testgroup chown test:testgroup -R folder1/ ls -lath drwxrwxr-x 2 test test 4,0K Jun 6 11:05 folder2 drwxrwxr-x 4 test test 4,0K Jun 6 11:05 . drwxrwxr-x 2 test testgroup 4,0K Jun 6 11:05 folder1 -rw-rw-r-- 1 test test 0 Jun 6 11:05 .hiddenfile drwxr-xr-x 3 test test 4,0K Jun 6 11:04 .. # change folder1 and subfolders to testgroup ls -lath folder1/ drwxrwxr-x 2 test testgroup 4,0K Jun 6 11:05 . drwxrwxr-x 4 test test 4,0K Jun 6 11:05 .. -rw-rw-r-- 1 test testgroup 0 Jun 6 11:05 .hiddenfile1 # change folder1 and hidden files to testgroup chown test:testgroup -R folder1/.* drwxrwxr-x 2 test testgroup 4,0K Jun 6 11:05 folder2 drwxrwxr-x 4 test testgroup 4,0K Jun 6 11:05 . drwxrwxr-x 2 test testgroup 4,0K Jun 6 11:05 folder1 -rw-rw-r-- 1 test testgroup 0 Jun 6 11:05 .hiddenfile drwxr-xr-x 3 test test 4,0K Jun 6 11:04 .. # Removing subfolders alias rm='rm -i' # This asks to remove ../ rm -R folder1/.* rm: refusing to remove '.' or '..' directory: skipping 'folder1/.' rm: refusing to remove '.' or '..' directory: skipping 'folder1/..' rm: remove regular empty file 'folder1/.hiddenfile1'? n As the KDE Neon Dev stable installation is a test installation I cannot guarantee that I'll have this system still installed when you answer me. The history should be reproducible. The installation is a fresh install with a low latency kernel, five or siy small packages from KXStudio repo installed and with upgraded packages. ISO: neon-devedition-gitstable-20170605-1854-amd64.iso
> That means, {folder}/.* is interpreted also as {folder}/.. This is intentional and as far as I remember has always been the case. I have no clue why it didn't work like this for you in Trusty. Anyway, please search the Internet for "what's the difference between terminal emulator and shell" to learn and understand why your observation has absolutely nothing to with konsole or kde, thanks!
I don't believe this is related to KDE or Konsole