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["Jeremy Blosser (emrys)" <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>]

On Aug 09, Andrew ruskie Levstik [ruskie AT mages.ath.cx] wrote:
> > [snip-a-lot]
> > >   find ./ -type d | xargs chown root.games
> > [snap-a-lot]
> > Shouldn't that be root:games?
> 
> So far user.group worked for me always(I'm guessing almost any sane
> delimiter would do the job). I never used user:group always
> user.group(saves me a keypress :) )

Not any sane delimiter, GNU chown only respects colon or dot.  However, dot
is deprecated.  From the chown info page:

   Some older scripts may still use `.' in place of the `:' separator.
   POSIX 1003.1-2001 (*note Standards conformance::) does not require
   support for that, but for backward compatibility GNU `chown' supports
   `.' so long as no ambiguity results.  New scripts should avoid the use
   of `.' because it is not portable, and because it has undesirable
   results if the entire OWNER`.'GROUP happens to identify a user whose
   name contains `.'.

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