Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 17:14:44 +0000 (UTC) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: chown syntax changed "POLA" Message-ID: <ag4k64$22qr$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <20020705104944.5556b3b9.nospam@hiltonbsd.com>
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Stephen Hilton <nospam@hiltonbsd.com> wrote: > >From "man chown": > > 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. Note that this paragraph has been there since the start of the public FreeBSD CVS repository in 1994. Which meshes with my memory that ':' has been preferred to separate user and group for as long as I've been seriously using Unix. > and how about script compatability across different UNIX's ? It's POSIX. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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