[X-Unix] Where is lchown?
James Bucanek
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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.
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James Bucanek
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