Hi, On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 08:53:47AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: > On 11/21/2013 04:50 AM, Tormen wrote: > > > > I think I just found a bug in chown... \o/ ;) > > > > I tried: > > chown 1001: /tmp/bla > > > > Leading to: > > chown: invalid spec: `1001:' > > Drop the trailing colon. > > > ... it should be a bug except if there is a technical detail I am > > missing here. > > If you provide a colon, you MUST also provide a group spec. Per 'chown > --help', the syntax is: > chown [OPTION]... [OWNER][:[GROUP]] FILE... > so these are valid: > chown 1001 /tmp/bla # change owner only > chown :1001 /tmp/bla # change group only > chown 1001:1001 /tmp/bla # change both > but this is invalid: > chown 1001: /tmp/bla # '' is not a valid group
Should this be changed to 'chown [OPTION]... [OWNER][:GROUP] FILE...' then? Erik
