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chown: allow numeric UID argument #804

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13 changes: 9 additions & 4 deletions bin/chown
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Expand Up @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ use constant EX_SUCCESS => 0;
use constant EX_FAILURE => 1;

my $Program = basename($0);
my ($VERSION) = '1.2';
my ($VERSION) = '1.3';

my $rc = EX_SUCCESS;

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -54,6 +54,9 @@ usage() unless @ARGV;
my ($owner, $group) = split /:/ => $mode, 2;

my $uid = getpwnam $owner;
unless (defined $uid) {
$uid = $owner if $owner =~ m/\A[0-9]+\z/;
}
unless (defined $uid) {
warn "$Program: invalid user: '$owner'\n";
exit EX_FAILURE;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -103,11 +106,13 @@ sub modify_file {
return;
}
unless (defined $group) {
$gid = (stat $file)[5] or do {
my @st = stat $file;
unless (@st) {
warn "$Program: failed to stat '$file': $!\n";
$rc = EX_FAILURE;
return;
};
}
$gid = $st[5];
}
unless (chown $uid, $gid, $file) {
warn "$Program: '$file': $!\n";
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -137,7 +142,7 @@ is changed as well.
=head2 OPTIONS

I<chown> accepts the options described below. The options I<-L>,
I<-H> and I<-P> are mutally exclusive, and only the last given
I<-H> and I<-P> are mutually exclusive, and only the last given
option will be honoured. All of I<-L>, I<-H> and I<-P> require the
I<-R> option to be set first.

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