[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > LW> "chown -R ." gave an error > Try > DJ> chown -R . file > which should emit > "Holmes, you think you are changing the owner of FILE to be the same > as the owner of ".", but you have actually typed something else (-R > means recursive) which is an absolute error, about which the new > improved chown command will hereby exit 1".
I think it makes sense to diagnose a spec of "." as invalid. If you want the no-op spec, you can use ":", and as Dan points out, otherwise it's too easy for chown to interpret an intended FILE argument of "." as a spec. Any scripts that rely on "chown . FILE" succeeding should have been changed long ago. Does anyone want to work on this? _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
