From the chown(8) manpage on Mac OS X version 10.9:
COMPATIBILITY
Previous versions of the chown utility used the dot (“.”) character to
distinguish the group name. This has been changed to be a colon (“:”)
character, so that user and group names may contain the dot character.
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