bug#12602: bug in chmod

[Eric Blake]

tag 12602 notabug
thanks

On 10/08/2012 09:29 AM, Гальченко Алексей wrote:
> address@hidden:/home/user# chmod a+r *
> chmod: неизвестный ключ «--else»
> Попробуйте `chmod --help' для получения более подробного описания.

Thanks for the report.  However, I suspect that what happened is that
you have a file in your current working directory whose name starts with
'-', and was therefore treated as an option.  If I'm right, then this
FAQ covers the situation:
https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/#I-have-a-file-_0027_002df_0027-and-it-affects-rm_002e

and you can use either of these constructs to avoid the issue:

chmod a+r ./*
chmod a+r -- *

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Eric Blake   address@hidden    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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