"Alfred M. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why not fix these problems by disambiguating the syntax? You can put > a new character in front of the new-format mode strings. E.g., > > chmod %-rw-rw-r-- file > > Why not fix it with a seperate option instead (which this basicly is)?
Because the same syntax is used in other places, e.g.: install -m %-rw-rw-r-- file directory mkdir -m %drwxr-xr-x directory and similarly for mkfifo and mknod. I suppose we could use a --ls-mode option instead. But it seems more consistent to me to make the suggestion improvement part of the mode syntax, since it's meant to take the place of 755, which is already part of the mode syntax. If you don't like '%', perhaps you'd prefer '@'? That might be a little clearer. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
