On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Anubhav Chaturvedi <mailforanubhav@xxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
