Re: Request review of CHOWN man page synopsis
From: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <hidden>
Date: 2014-01-27 06:34:22
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Anubhav Chaturvedi [off-list ref] wrote:
Hi I was going through the man page ( on my Ubuntu 12.04 ) and noticed that in the synopsis, owner has been marked as optional ( i.e, it is enclosed in [ ] ). chown [OPTION]... [OWNER][:[GROUP]] FILE... On browsing the man pages on web i noticed this was only the case with UNIX man page. Man pages at freeBSD and oracle showed the command usage as expected. I believe the correct usage would be chown [OPTION]... OWNER[:GROUP] FILE... Please do the corrections necessary and inform me if i am making a mistake in interpreting this.
Anubhav, This page is not part of the man-pages project. See http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/chown.1.html#COLOPHON But, I doubt that your report is correct. Read the text of the man page. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html