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Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 17:11:29 +1000 (EST)
From: Luke Kendall <luke DOT kendall AT cisra DOT canon DOT com DOT au>
Subject: Re: Path confusion
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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On  1 Apr, To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com wrote:
>  >  You must mean 'chown -R --from="$USER" ...' :-)  
>   
>  Hmm, sounds better still.  :-) 

D'oh!  Not possible: there's no -xdev option on chown, so that would
do a whole lot more chown-ing than intended, as it reached across the
network, or at least into other mount points under "/"  ...

While just checking that, I also discovered that "man chown" now
produces no output.  Other man entries seem fine.

$ cygcheck -s | grep "^cygwin "
cygcheck: dump_sysinfo: GetVolumeInformation() failed: 67
cygwin                  1.5.13-1
$ man chown | cat -tvu
Warning: cannot open configuration file /usr/share/misc/man.conf

$ gunzip -c /usr/share/man/man1/chown.1.gz | nroff -man | head
CHOWN(1)                         User Commands                        CHOWN(1)



NAME
       chown - change file owner and group

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


luke


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