From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 5 9:40:22 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 E88A337B400 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 09:40:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from laptop.tenebras.com (laptop.tenebras.com [66.92.188.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5CD3243E31 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 09:40:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kudzu@tenebras.com) Received: (qmail 15578 invoked from network); 5 Jul 2002 16:40:17 -0000 Received: from sapphire.tenebras.com (HELO tenebras.com) (66.92.188.241) by 0 with SMTP; 5 Jul 2002 16:40:17 -0000 Message-ID: <3D25CBF1.9040506@tenebras.com> Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2002 09:40:17 -0700 From: Michael Sierchio User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020626 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, fr-fr, ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dsyphers@uchicago.edu Cc: Stephen Hilton , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: chown syntax changed "POLA" References: <20020705104944.5556b3b9.nospam@hiltonbsd.com> <200207051133.24511.dsyphers@uchicago.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message