Yep, I stand corrected.
Gnu chown can take '.'
All other (earlier) versions of chown seem to be stuck with ':'
I guess in the interests of sanity, use '.' but in the interests of
portability to other *-ix use ':'
Depends on if the script has to work across a heterogenous network of
machines or not I guess.
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> What's the difference? I can't see any in the man page - the colon and
> dot seem to be interchangeable.
>
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