[NTLUG:Discuss] Is there a Better way to extract a directory owner's UID/GID?

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 01:38:15PM -0600, Eric Schnoebelen wrote:
> 
> Richard Geoffrion writes:
> - Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> - >On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 12:53:14PM -0600, Richard Geoffrion wrote:
> - >>Issue:  Need to change ownership of a file to be owned by the owner of 
> - >>the current(or parent) directory
> - >
> - >FWIW, many chown commands support a --reference= option:
> 
> 	?Many?  As far as I can tell, only the GNU version supports
> that.  NetBSD, HP-UX, SCO UNIX, POSIX.2 all lack that extension.
> 
> 	Just something to be aware of when portability is
> important.

Okay, I should've said "some" instead of "many".  :-)  I didn't know
how widespread the option was.

(The whole reason I said "many" in the first place was to indicate
that it wasn't universal.)

Pm