Re: Bugreport for ChMod

[Micah Cowan]

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Michael Gorbovitski wrote:
> chmod --help
> results in :
>       help for chmod
>       ......
>       Each MODE is of the form `[ugoa]*([-+=]([rwxXst]*|[ugo]))+'.
> 
>       Report bugs to <address@hidden>.
> 
> 
> The above regular expression is unparsable by most people requesting the help.

Heartily agreed. Ugly and unnecessary, IMO.

Besides, we already have an at least marginally easier-to-grok version
further up: [ugoa...][[+-=][rwxXstugo...]...][,...]. Though I'm not sure
this shouldn't go, either.

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Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer...
http://micah.cowan.name/

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