bug#16550: Request review of CHOWN man page synopsis

[Anubhav Chaturvedi]

Hi

I was going through the man page ( on my Ubuntu 12.04 ) and noticed that in
the synopsis, owner has been marked as optional ( i.e, it is enclosed in  [
] ).

chown [OPTION]... [OWNER][:[GROUP]] FILE...

On browsing the man pages on web i noticed this was only the case with UNIX
man page. Man pages at
freeBSD<http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=chown&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+7.0-RELEASE&format=html>and
oracle <http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19683-01/816-0210/6m6nb7m5t/index.html>showed
the command usage as expected.

I believe the correct usage would be

chown [OPTION]... OWNER[:GROUP] FILE...

Please do the corrections necessary and inform me if i am making a mistake
in interpreting this.

*Regards,*
*Anubhav Chaturvedi*

*Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani*
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