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From: Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@×××××××××××××××××××.net>
To: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: coreutils >=5.0.1 breaks chown user.group on new systems
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 21:00:30
Message-Id: 3F83294E.7020506@technaut.darktalker.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: coreutils >=5.0.1 breaks chown user.group on new systems by John Mylchreest
1 John Mylchreest wrote:
2 >>Let's say you've got a file, 'foo' that contains
3 >>----CUT----
4 >>chown root.root foo
5 >>----CUT----
6 >>
7 >># echo "`cat foo | cut -d "." -f1`:`cat foo | cut -d "." -f2`"
8 >>
9 >>seems to work on the simple case.
10 >>
11 >>I'm sure someone can come up with a regex to match the dotted-chown.
12 >
13 >
14 > this is easily fixed using a simple sed, however when it comes down to
15 > the actual ebuilds, this isnt a possibility.
16
17 Why not?
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