Sometime last week I happened upon a handy little shortcut when using the chown command. I mistakenly keyed in the command wrong and it turned out to work, so I investigated. Turns out that by leaving off the group name, but leaving the colon, chown will automatically use the default group of the specified user. That's so handy. What's surprising is how much I really use that trick. Why, I must save literally seconds every other day or so. That's gonna add up, baby.

Here's an example for you impatient, graphical learners:

chown tensai: file.txt