On Nov 1, 2011, at 04:26, Jeremy Burns wrote:

> I'm following the tutorial for setting up David Persson's media
> plugin. Each time I run this:
> 
> chmod -R a+rwX webroot/media/{transfer,filter}
> 
> ... in Terminal I get this error:
> 
> chmod: Invalid file mode: -R


I have a feeling you didn't type the command yourself, but that you copied and 
pasted from the tutorial's web page. You didn't provide the URL of the 
tutorial, but I'll bet it was posted on some blog, and that the blog engine 
helpfully converted the hyphen in "-R" into an en-dash ("–R") or em-dash 
("—R"). They look very similar on-screen, especially in a fixed-width font, but 
they're totally different to the Terminal. I'm able to reproduce the error you 
experienced if I use an en-dash or em-dash in place of the proper hyphen. So 
the lesson is: sometimes it pays to type commands yourself instead of 
copy/pasting, just be sure to transcribe them very carefully.


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