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Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 13:58:38 +0100
From: Karol Kwiatkowski <freebsd@orchid.homeunix.org>
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Subject: Re: Translate This Command?
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On 20/11/2006 12:50, Rachel Florentine wrote:
> Hi;
> I'm reading a how-to and it tells me to issue this command:
>=20
> chown -R alias.qmail ~alias/rejoice
>=20
> But that errors. What's the BSD translation?

I'm not sure, what it's supposed to do?

You can check chown's syntax and options with 'man 8 chown':

% chown [-fhv] [-R [-H | -L | -P]] owner[:group] file ...
% chown [-fhv] [-R [-H | -L | -P]] :group file ...

% -R Change the user ID and/or the group ID of the specified directory
%    trees (recursively, including their contents) and files. [...]


HTH,

Karol

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