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Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/chown/chown.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.sbin/chown/chown.8 | 24 |
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 , |