chown

[Christopher Faylor]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 04:25:30AM -0800, George wrote:
>From the "Recovering from Windows penchant for spaces in user and file
>names" Department:
>
>Maybe I'm being really dense, but the --from switch isn't quite 
>working as advertised:
>
>george@home ~/test
>$ ls -ln
>-rwxrwxrwx    1 544      513            48 Nov 17 03:59 testfile
>
>george@home ~/test
>$ chown --from=514:513 1008:513 testfile
>
>george@home ~/test
>$ ls -ln
>-rwxrwxrwx    1 544      513            48 Nov 17 03:59 testfile
>
>Thanks.

http://cygwin.com/problems.html would probably be instructive.

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