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Date:      Fri, 05 Jul 2002 09:40:17 -0700
From:      Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com>
To:        dsyphers@uchicago.edu
Cc:        Stephen Hilton <nospam@hiltonbsd.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: chown syntax changed "POLA"
Message-ID:  <3D25CBF1.9040506@tenebras.com>
References:  <20020705104944.5556b3b9.nospam@hiltonbsd.com> <200207051133.24511.dsyphers@uchicago.edu>

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David Syphers wrote:

> 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  :)

The Single UNIX ® Specification, Version 2 sez:

chown [-R] owner[:group] file ...

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xcu/chown.html


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