matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au> writes:
> depends on how you define "portable".  most older systems won't accept
> user:group, and some of older systems also won't accept user.group.
> 
> the only truly portable solution is to manually all chown/chgrp.
> 
> user:group is however the "standard" way, so probably is most portable
> to modern systems.

All true. For our purposes, I think the last is probably currently the
best.

Perry
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