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bug#15945: chown: Does now allow setting user and users login group with
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Tormen |
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bug#15945: chown: Does now allow setting user and users login group with numerical user ID |
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Thu, 21 Nov 2013 17:41:19 +0100 |
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On 21/11/13 17:32, Eric Blake wrote:
> tag 15945 - notabug
> reopen 15945
> thanks
No, thank you :)
> On 11/21/2013 09:24 AM, Tormen wrote:
>
>>>> Leading to:
>>>> chown: invalid spec: `1001:'
>>> Drop the trailing colon.
>> But I want the same effect than
>> chown me: /tmp/bla
> Ooh, you're right. We DO document that:
I started wondering if I missed something extremely obvious here ;)
> Which means my earlier comments aren't quite correct - the existing use
> of [:[GROUP]] in usage text is correct. But I _still_ think we need to
> split into two lines to make it obvious that the argument itself is
> mandatory, as in:
>
> Usage: chown [OPTION]... OWNER[:[GROUP]] FILE...
> or: chown [OPTION]... :[GROUP] FILE...
>
> or even rewrite it along the lines of the info page:
>
> Usage: chown [OPTION]... NEWSPEC FILE...
>
> and document that NEWSPEC is [OWNER][:[GROUP]]
... and mention that either OWNER or GROUP needs to be present ;)
But I prefer the 2 lines ... more concise and allows to quickly grasp
the meaning (IMHO).
Tormen
- bug#15945: chown: Does now allow setting user and users login group with numerical user ID, Tormen, 2013/11/21
- bug#15945: chown: Does now allow setting user and users login group with numerical user ID, Andreas Schwab, 2013/11/21
- bug#15945: chown: Does now allow setting user and users login group with numerical user ID, Eric Blake, 2013/11/21
- bug#15945: chown: Does now allow setting user and users login group with numerical user ID, Tormen, 2013/11/21
- bug#15945: chown: Does now allow setting user and users login group with numerical user ID, Eric Blake, 2013/11/21
- bug#15945: chown: Does now allow setting user and users login group with numerical user ID, Tormen, 2013/11/21
- bug#15945: chown: Does now allow setting user and users login group with numerical user ID, Bob Proulx, 2013/11/21