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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>1998-11-08 00:21:31 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>1998-11-08 00:21:31 +0000
commit31da08892cd3349676917320548e92b7170e539f (patch)
tree2bcc05bd61d8dc50843a9df23594a4b4501a7f54 /usr.sbin/chown/chown.8
parent3035e250c3d7a79b3f5d0de48cc642b4d4752ad1 (diff)
usr.sbin/ man page repairs, a-i
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/chown/chown.8')
-rw-r--r--usr.sbin/chown/chown.824
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/chown/chown.8 b/usr.sbin/chown/chown.8
index ebc9d6be82c..77333ef5eb1 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/chown/chown.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/chown/chown.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: chown.8,v 1.2 1997/01/26 05:54:28 downsj Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: chown.8,v 1.3 1998/11/08 00:21:27 aaron Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -47,8 +47,8 @@
.Oc
.Op Fl f
.Op Fl h
-.Ar owner Op Ar :group
-.Ar file ...
+.Ar ownerof Op Ar :group
+.Ar file Op Ar ...
.Nm chown
.Oo
.Fl R
@@ -57,9 +57,9 @@
.Op Fl f
.Op Fl h
.Ar :group
-.Ar file ...
+.Ar file Op Ar ...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
-.Nm Chown
+.Nm chown
sets the user ID and/or the group ID of the specified files.
.Pp
The options are as follows:
@@ -109,7 +109,9 @@ and
operands are both optional, however, one must be specified.
If the
.Ar group
-operand is specified, it must be preceded by a colon (``:'') character.
+operand is specified, it must be preceded by a colon
+.Pq Sq \&:
+character.
.Pp
The
.Ar owner
@@ -127,12 +129,16 @@ obvious security reasons.
.Pp
The
.Nm chown
-utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
+utility exits 0 on success or >0 if an error occurred.
.Sh COMPATIBILITY
Previous versions of the
.Nm chown
-utility used the dot (``.'') character to distinguish the group name.
-This has been changed to be a colon (``:'') character so that user and
+utility used the dot
+.Pq Sq \&.
+character to distinguish the group name.
+This has been changed to be a colon
+.Pq Sq \&:
+character so that user and
group names may contain the dot character.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr chgrp 1 ,