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Re: chown
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: George <d1945 at sbcglobal dot net>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:30:35 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: chown
- References: <20041117122530.GA748@home>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, 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.
What CGF said... However, as a datapoint, chown's --from switch works
just fine for me, as long as I specify the current owner and group
correctly... :-) I.e., in your case, you should have said
$ chown --from=544:513 1008:513 testfile
^^^
Hope this helps,
Igor
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