Re: Bugreport for ChMod

[Michael Gorbovitski]

Micah Cowan wrote:
> 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.
> 
Leaving it in is not that bad, in my opinion.
I would just want a common example there, something along the lines of:

To let everyone (the 'w'orld) 'r'ead the file foo, use the command
        chmod w+r foo

Maybe 1 or 2 examples, and 3-4 lines exaplaining w,r,x,X and a,u, and g.
Maybe even omit X and g, as they are much more rarely used.