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Re: Coreutils-gotchas
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Pádraig Brady |
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Re: Coreutils-gotchas |
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Tue, 1 Dec 2015 15:13:35 +0000 |
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On 01/12/15 14:58, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 30 Nov 2015 10:37, Eric Blake wrote:
>> On 11/28/2015 11:34 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote:
>>> On 11/29/2015 12:16 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
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>>>>> I must collate some gotchas like this.
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>>>> Initial list started at:
>>>> http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/coreutils-gotchas.html
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>>> Fantastic list!
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>> Agreed.
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>> On the chmod entry, it might also be worth mentioning that:
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>> chmod -R a-x,a+X
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>> works to remove execute permissions on regular files but not
>> directories, without needing a 'find'/'xargs' pair.
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> the xargs usage seems pointless/wasteful to me. just do:
> find -type f -exec chmod 644 {} +
Updated. thanks