implicit paths?

[abishur]

I was talking to someone yesterday about chown/chgrp/chmod and was telling them to change all the files in a directory to your ownership enter

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sudo chown <your_username> ./*

someone else chimed in with the question couldn't you just write

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sudo chown <your_username> *

And honestly I don't know. Can you do that? I know at the end of the day I personally dislike going that far with implicit path declarations (I'm looking at you ~/ !) and would much rather use ./* to specifically state "in the folder I am in right now do X", but I'd like to know if the * by itself would work properly.

[Joe Schmoe]

They mean exactly the same thing.

[abishur]

Thanks Joe!