LW> "chown -R ." gave an error Try DJ> chown -R . file which should emit "Holmes, you think you are changing the owner of FILE to be the same as the owner of ".", but you have actually typed something else (-R means recursive) which is an absolute error, about which the new improved chown command will hereby exit 1".
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