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Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:30:35 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: George <d1945 AT sbcglobal DOT net>
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Subject: Re: chown
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On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, George wrote:

> From the "Recovering from Windows penchant for spaces in user and file
> names" Department:
>
> Maybe I'm being really dense, but the --from switch isn't quite
> working as advertised:
>
> george AT home ~/test
> $ ls -ln
> -rwxrwxrwx    1 544      513            48 Nov 17 03:59 testfile
>
> george AT home ~/test
> $ chown --from=514:513 1008:513 testfile
>
> george AT home ~/test
> $ ls -ln
> -rwxrwxrwx    1 544      513            48 Nov 17 03:59 testfile
>
> Thanks.

What CGF said...  However, as a datapoint, chown's --from switch works
just fine for me, as long as I specify the current owner and group
correctly... :-)  I.e., in your case, you should have said

$ chown --from=544:513 1008:513 testfile
               ^^^
Hope this helps,
	Igor
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