Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net> 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 ... > > 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. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
