From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 5 9:33:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F8F137B400 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 09:33:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from midway.uchicago.edu (midway.uchicago.edu [128.135.12.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AA4843E09 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 09:33:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dsyphers@uchicago.edu) Received: from Yggdrasil (adsl-68-20-38-132.dsl.chcgil.ameritech.net [68.20.38.132]) by midway.uchicago.edu (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g65GXNot004012; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 11:33:23 -0500 (CDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: David Syphers Reply-To: dsyphers@uchicago.edu To: Stephen Hilton , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: chown syntax changed "POLA" Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 11:33:24 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 References: <20020705104944.5556b3b9.nospam@hiltonbsd.com> In-Reply-To: <20020705104944.5556b3b9.nospam@hiltonbsd.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200207051133.24511.dsyphers@uchicago.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday 05 July 2002 10:49 am, Stephen Hilton wrote: > > COMPATIBILITY > Previous versions of the chown utility used the dot (``.'') character to > distinguish the group name. This has been changed to be a colon (``:'') > character so that user and group names may contain the dot character. > Wow, this really caught me by surprise! Time to review and update > my shell scripts. > > Am i correct in assuming that this will be the "defacto standard" > for chown in FreeBSD 4.7 and 5 ?, and how about script > compatability across different UNIX's ? According to the manpages at http://www.freebsd.org/docs.html#man, the use of the colon instead of the dot is standard in recent versions of Solaris, SuSE, RedHat, NetBSD, and indeed in 4.4BSD Lite2. I didn't even know you could use a dot, until now :) -David -- Everyone who believes in telekinesis, raise my hand... Astronomy and Astrophysics Center The University of Chicago To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message