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Re: Path confusion
- From: Luke Kendall <luke dot kendall at cisra dot canon dot com dot au>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 17:11:29 +1000 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Path confusion
On 1 Apr, To: cygwin@cygwin.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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