Hi Pádraig, Thanks for following along and writing. The reasoning is similar. They are missing the files only counterpart. -F and -D would be good short forms. I left those out because I envisioned bringing similar functionality (with same invocation) to cp and ls. Unfortunately ls already has -D and -F, and the use case for ls was not clear to me. But if there is a good case for ls having this functionality, then perhaps -F and -D are not ideal.
Apologies, I didn’t know about the discussion. I was itching to take a deep dive into Linux commands as a break from a way too deep dive into Docker containers. Cheers, ian > On Feb 17, 2018, at 4:30 PM, Pádraig Brady <p...@draigbrady.com> wrote: > > On 15/02/18 16:44, Ian Morris Nieves wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> Apologies if I have incorrectly followed any conventions. I’ve tried. >> Attached please find a new feature I created to simplify setting permissions >> (especially recursively), which enables the user to separately target files >> or directories. >> Tests of correctness also included. >> >> Any input or feedback greatly appreciated. > > Such functionality has been discussed previously at: > https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/rejected_requests.html#chmod > > thanks, > Pádraig
