[X-Unix] Where is lchown?

James Bucanek subscriber at gloaming.com
Sat Oct 21 16:40:17 PDT 2006


Jerry Krinock wrote on Saturday, October 21, 2006:

>I have a manual (man) page for lchown and would like to use it.  But I get
>no results in searching for it on my either of my Tiger Macs, neither
>PowerPC nor Intel.
>
>chown is in /usr/sbin.
>
>Where is the executable lchown?

I have no man page for lchown as a command (sections 1 or 8). There's one for the lchown C _function_ (section 2), but that's an API not an executable.

To get the function of lchown on the command line, run the chown executable with the -P option.

-- 
James Bucanek


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