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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2000-02-12 08:57:50 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2000-02-12 08:57:50 +0000
commit04d0388df406e38f9b0c775c4f5331addf348ba7 (patch)
treec6a59428e4ed1a7951d5420a4b85d627e24a0d46
parentd89210720b1a67f9a73aadd53b31650774ad302f (diff)
downloadcoreutils-04d0388df406e38f9b0c775c4f5331addf348ba7.tar.xz
(usage): Mention only `:', and not `.' as the separator.
-rw-r--r--src/chown.c10
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/src/chown.c b/src/chown.c
index 9fc30552a..a32d74a2a 100644
--- a/src/chown.c
+++ b/src/chown.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
/* chown -- change user and group ownership of files
- Copyright (C) 89, 90, 91, 1995-1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Copyright (C) 89, 90, 91, 1995-2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -295,8 +295,8 @@ usage (int status)
else
{
printf (_("\
-Usage: %s [OPTION]... OWNER[.[GROUP]] FILE...\n\
- or: %s [OPTION]... .GROUP FILE...\n\
+Usage: %s [OPTION]... OWNER[:[GROUP]] FILE...\n\
+ or: %s [OPTION]... :GROUP FILE...\n\
or: %s [OPTION]... --reference=RFILE FILE...\n\
"),
program_name, program_name, program_name);
@@ -311,14 +311,14 @@ Change the owner and/or group of each FILE to OWNER and/or GROUP.\n\
ownership of a symlink)\n\
-f, --silent, --quiet suppress most error messages\n\
--reference=RFILE use RFILE's owner and group rather than\n\
- the specified OWNER.GROUP values\n\
+ the specified OWNER:GROUP values\n\
-R, --recursive operate on files and directories recursively\n\
-v, --verbose output a diagnostic for every file processed\n\
--help display this help and exit\n\
--version output version information and exit\n\
\n\
Owner is unchanged if missing. Group is unchanged if missing, but changed\n\
-to login group if implied by a period. A colon may replace the period.\n\
+to login group if implied by a `:'.\n\
"));
puts (_("\nReport bugs to <bug-fileutils@gnu.org>."));
close_stdout ();