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Date:      Mon, 6 Mar 2000 12:12:17 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Dave Boers <djb@wit389306.student.utwente.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, dalroi@wit401310.student.utwente.nl
Subject:   Re: Small bug in chown and chgrp ?
Message-ID:  <20000306121217.Z14279@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <20000306203608.B26973@relativity.student.utwente.nl>; from djb@wit389306.student.utwente.nl on Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 08:36:08PM %2B0100
References:  <20000306203608.B26973@relativity.student.utwente.nl>

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* Dave Boers <djb@wit389306.student.utwente.nl> [000306 12:08] wrote:
> Hi all, 
> 
> I've been bitten by the following: 
> 
> 44 relativity ~ % chown -v djb:wheel test
> chown: illegal option -- v
> usage: chown [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f] [-h] [-v] owner[:group] file ...
>        chown [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f] [-h] [-v] :group file ...
>        chgrp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f] [-h] [-v] group file ...
> 
> Where "test" is an ordinary directory. 
> 
> It seems that chown's behavior is inconsistent with both the usage message
> and the man page. The same goes for chgrp. 

have you deleted your stale copies of chown/chgrp?  hint look in 
/bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin and make sure the old ones aren't
"in the way".

-Alfred


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