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| author | Laurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org> | 2014-09-19 02:53:32 +0000 |
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| committer | Laurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org> | 2014-09-19 02:53:32 +0000 |
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diff --git a/doc/s6-chown.html b/doc/s6-chown.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0cbbe57 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/s6-chown.html @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +<html> + <head> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en" /> + <title>s6-portable-utils: the s6-chown program</title> + <meta name="Description" content="s6-portable-utils: the s6-chown program" /> + <meta name="Keywords" content="s6-portable-utils command s6-chown chown" /> + <!-- <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://skarnet.org/default.css" /> --> + </head> +<body> + +<p> +<a href="index.html">s6-portable-utils</a><br /> +<a href="http://skarnet.org/software/">Software</a><br /> +<a href="http://skarnet.org/">skarnet.org</a> +</p> + +<h1> The <tt>s6-chown</tt> program </h1> + +<p> + s6-chown changes the owner and/or group of a file. +</p> + +<h2> Interface </h2> + +<pre> + s6-chown [ -U ] [ -u uid ] [ -g gid ] file +</pre> + +<ul> + <li> s6-chown changes <em>file</em>'s owner to (numeric) <em>uid</em> and group +to (numeric) <em>gid</em>. </li> + <li> If <em>uid</em> isn't provided, the owner remains the same; if <em>gid</em> +isn't provided, the group remains the same. </li> + <li> The <tt>-U</tt> option sets <em>uid</em> to the value of the UID +environment variable and <em>gid</em> to the value of the GID environment variable. +This makes s6-chown easily usable with +<a href="http://www.skarnet.org/software/s6/s6-envuidgid.html">s6-envuidgid</a>: +<tt> s6-envuidgid account s6-chown -U file </tt> changes <em>file</em>'s uid and +gid to <em>account</em>'s. </li> +</ul> + +<h2> Posixness </h2> + +<p> + s6-chown <strong>is not</strong> suitable as a Single Unix +<a href="http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/chown.html">chown</a> +program. +</p> + +</body> +</html> |