[Trisquel-users] Re : Permissions on a new USB flash drive

[lcerf]

Every user is normally alone in a group with the same name, $USER if that  
user is executing the command.  $george is the content of the shell variable  
george, an empty string if that variable is not defined.  However, the  
command did the right thing because, according to 'info chown':

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.