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Re: chown
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:23:38 -0500
- Subject: Re: chown
- References: <20041117122530.GA748@home>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 04:25:30AM -0800, George wrote:
>From the "Recovering from Windows penchant for spaces in user and file
>names" Department:
>
>Maybe I'm being really dense, but the --from switch isn't quite
>working as advertised:
>
>george@home ~/test
>$ ls -ln
>-rwxrwxrwx 1 544 513 48 Nov 17 03:59 testfile
>
>george@home ~/test
>$ chown --from=514:513 1008:513 testfile
>
>george@home ~/test
>$ ls -ln
>-rwxrwxrwx 1 544 513 48 Nov 17 03:59 testfile
>
>Thanks.
http://cygwin.com/problems.html would probably be instructive.
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