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chown: accept "[NUMERIC-ID]:" syntax

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From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: Tormen <quickhelp <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 15945 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15945: chown: Does now allow setting user and users login group with numerical user ID
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 09:44:02 -0700

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On 11/21/2013 09:41 AM, Tormen wrote:
>>> But I want the same effect than
>>>     chown me: /tmp/bla
>> Ooh, you're right.  We DO document that:
> I started wondering if I missed something extremely obvious here ;)

No, rather _I_ missed that 'chown --help' is (intentionally) not as
comprehensive as 'info coreutils chown' :)

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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