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Re: chown, cpio: proposed change for userspec handling of USER:
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: chown, cpio: proposed change for userspec handling of USER: |
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Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:41:19 +0100 |
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Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
> While writing a few tests for userspec (below), I was surprised to
> re-learn that chown USER_NAME: has a special meaning. It is a
> shorthand for chown USER_NAME:+$(id -g USER_NAME) ...
> I had expected it to be equivalent to this:
> chown USER_NAME ...
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> Since the above behavior is not specified by POSIX, and
> is IMHO, counter-intuitive
Why? I find it very convenient and use it quite a lot.
Andreas.
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"And now for something completely different."
- chown, cpio: proposed change for userspec handling of USER:, Jim Meyering, 2009/12/02
- Re: chown, cpio: proposed change for userspec handling of USER:,
Andreas Schwab <=
- Re: chown, cpio: proposed change for userspec handling of USER:, Brian K. White, 2009/12/02
- Re: chown, cpio: proposed change for userspec handling of USER:, Paul Eggert, 2009/12/02
- Re: chown, cpio: proposed change for userspec handling of USER:, Bob Proulx, 2009/12/02
- Re: chown, cpio: proposed change for userspec handling of USER:, Sergey Poznyakoff, 2009/12/03