Re: chown --from

[Jim Meyering]

Saso Zivanovic <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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. Plus, if I
> use it, it doesn't work, or, put it this way, it works too much: I can't
> change what I want. Here's what I do (as user 'saso' and as root):
>
> address@hidden:~/temp > ll cobiss
> -rw-rw-r--    1 saso     users        4942 Nov  1 21:13 cobiss
> address@hidden:~/temp > chown -v --from=saso:users saso:saso cobiss
> address@hidden:~/temp > ll cobiss
> -rw-rw-r--    1 saso     users        4942 Nov  1 21:13 cobiss
> address@hidden:~/temp >
>
> Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks for the report.
That is due to a bug in fileutils-4.1.
It's fixed in the latest test release:

   * chown's --from=CURRENT_OWNER:CURRENT_GROUP option now works

  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/fileutils-4.1.1.tar.gz