Hum, yes, I guess I'm feeling annoyed by this because I always specify the
group (explicitly or with the colon suffix), but most others don't. Let's
forget about this.

-- Julien

2011/8/27 Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>

> On 27 August 2011 19:29, Julien Nicoulaud <julien.nicoulaud@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 'chown user: path' is valid syntax, so the colon after "user" should not
> be
> > automatically removed.
>
> This appears to be a GNU extension, and does the much more annoying
> thing of changing the group of the files to the main group of the
> specified user, so with the proposed change, everyone would need to
> backspace away the colon to not change the group. Plus it breaks on
> systems that don't use GNU chown.
>
> --
> Mikael Magnusson
>