Id: cannot find name for group ID 197121

Question

I am running the command : sudo chown -R $USER:$(id -gn $USER) C:\Users\user57.config on windows with git bash and it gives me such error: id: cannot find name for group ID 197121. Any solution?

Answer 1

for git-bash on Windows:

chown -R $USERNAME:$(id -g $USERNAME) /c/Users/user57.config

explanation:

• $USER is not set, use $USERNAME instead
• id -g works, but not id -n, however chown will work with the group id
• target path with forward slash (rather than backslash) starting with /c/ for the drive letter