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bug#16550: Request review of CHOWN man page synopsis
From: |
Anubhav Chaturvedi |
Subject: |
bug#16550: Request review of CHOWN man page synopsis |
Date: |
Sat, 25 Jan 2014 18:41:39 +0530 |
Hi
I was going through the man page ( on my Ubuntu 12.04 ) and noticed that in
the synopsis, owner has been marked as optional ( i.e, it is enclosed in [
] ).
chown [OPTION]... [OWNER][:[GROUP]] FILE...
On browsing the man pages on web i noticed this was only the case with UNIX
man page. Man pages at
freeBSD<http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=chown&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+7.0-RELEASE&format=html>and
oracle <http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19683-01/816-0210/6m6nb7m5t/index.html>showed
the command usage as expected.
I believe the correct usage would be
chown [OPTION]... OWNER[:GROUP] FILE...
Please do the corrections necessary and inform me if i am making a mistake
in interpreting this.
*Regards,*
*Anubhav Chaturvedi*
*Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani*
KK Birla Goa Campus
+91-9637399150
*" You can do anything if you stop doing everything "*
- bug#16550: Request review of CHOWN man page synopsis,
Anubhav Chaturvedi <=