Package: coreutils Version: 8.13-3.5 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
Recently I discovered (with help of some blog post) that chown supports dot '.' in user/group argument: chown -R root.www-data /var/www/some-site It is more convenient that column, because there is no need to pres Shift key. but this feature somehow is not documented in man page. Currently it looks like this: chown [OPTION]... [OWNER][:[GROUP]] FILE... But it could be something like this I guess: chown [OPTION]... [OWNER][:|.[GROUP]] FILE... Column is mentioned in later text multiple times, but not the dot. Same in Wheezy and Jessies. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.9 APT prefers oldstable-updates APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages coreutils depends on: ii dpkg 1.16.17 ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-10 ii libacl1 2.2.51-8 ii libattr1 1:2.4.46-8 ii libc6 2.13-38+deb7u10 ii libselinux1 2.1.9-5 coreutils recommends no packages. coreutils suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
