On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 06:48:52PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
Of course, these man pages are really to old! There is only one reason its are old, noboby maintiends its...
they were never maintained ... they were simply imported from the GNU projects taking coreutils as an example (since the list above is pretty much completely for coreutils), it provides fully up-to-date man pages for most of the things here ... there's no point in constantly copying and updating the versions in man-pages when the coreutils project is already doing it
You are entirely mistaken. I spent a nontrivial amount of time writing these pages, long ago.
NAME chown - change file owner and group
SYNOPSIS chown [options] user[:group] file...
POSIX options: [-R] [--]
GNU options (shortest form): [-cfhvR] [--dereference] ...
These pages were far superior to what GNU provided. But they are outdated today. POSIX has changed and coreutils has changed.
Andries