Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 11:33:24 -0500 From: David Syphers <dsyphers@uchicago.edu> To: Stephen Hilton <nospam@hiltonbsd.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: chown syntax changed "POLA" Message-ID: <200207051133.24511.dsyphers@uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <20020705104944.5556b3b9.nospam@hiltonbsd.com> References: <20020705104944.5556b3b9.nospam@hiltonbsd.com>
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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
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