Re: chown --from

[Bob Proulx]

> Well, not exactly a bug I think. There is an option '--from' mentioned in my 
> man pages (Suse 7.2), but I couldn't find it mentioned on the web.

Not commenting on chown functionality but supplying a (perhaps better
because more portable) workaround.

> address@hidden:~/temp > chown -v --from=saso:users saso:saso cobiss

Try this?

  find ./cobis -user saso -group users -print | xargs chown saso:saso

And if you are using the GNU version use the extensions for robustness.

  find ./cobis -user saso -group users -print0 | xargs -0r chown saso:saso

The 'find' command is much better at searching the filesystem and
implementing control flow.

Bob