RE: chown question

["Jonathan Shore" <jshore@example.com>]

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> I'm trying to do a chown on a set of files but it keeps
> complaining "invalid
> user" ... strangely enough I was able to do a chgrp with all the same
> arguments. I'm assuming it's because the name has a "." in it ...

If I'm not mistaken many chown implementations assume that "." separates the
group from the user (you can set both).

Try directly setting using the uid.

chown -R 507 top40

>
> Can anyone offer suggestion on how I might get this command to co-operate?
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