Eric Blake wrote: > OWNER':' > If a colon but no group name follows OWNER, that user is made the > owner of the files and the group of the files is changed to OWNER's > login group.
Long ago this was an existing behavior of GNU rm and discussion on the list talked of removing it. I defended it because I often used this on various systems to set the default group of a user. Because some systems are configured with user-private-groups where the user is in a private group while on other systems the user is in a shared "users" group. Using 'chown foo: file' was a nice way to set the group to foo's default group without needing to figure out what that group was ahead of time. I don't know when it was introduced into GNU chown but at the least I had been using it extensively. > so it looks like we have a bug that if OWNER is numeric, we aren't > looking up OWNER's login group. Seems that way. Bob
