[KLUG Members] setting user id

[Robert G. Brown]

On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 13:44:27 -0400, Adam Williams <awilliam@whitemice.org> wrote:
>>chown owner:groupowner filename
>Hey, you can use a colon as well as a period?  Well, you learn something 
>every day.
Yeah. I think the period is an AIX construct. 

NAME
       chown - change file owner and group

SYNOPSIS
       chown [OPTION]... OWNER[:[GROUP]] FILE...
       chown [OPTION]... :GROUP FILE...
       chown [OPTION]... --reference=RFILE FILE...

DESCRIPTION
       This manual page documents the GNU version of chown.  ...

I think  : is also supported by Solaris chown.

Wait for chown - The Defintive Reference, coming from Oh Really? Books...

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