tag 16550 notabug close 16550 stop On 01/25/2014 01:11 PM, Anubhav Chaturvedi wrote: > 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.
Owner is optional. The info docs illustrate this more clearly: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/chown-invocation.html thanks, Pádraig.
