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Re: Coreutils-gotchas
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Pádraig Brady |
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Re: Coreutils-gotchas |
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Wed, 16 Dec 2015 18:52:36 +0000 |
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On 16/12/15 18:45, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> On 12/07/2015 12:23 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> Initial list started at:
>> http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/coreutils-gotchas.html
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> The recent "touch -d yesterday" might be a 'gotcha'
> ( http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2015-12/msg00041.html ) .
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> Something like:
> On GNU/Linux, "touch -d now" requires only write permissions to a file,
> while "touch -d [SPECIFIC-DATE]" requires file ownership or root permission
> (and similarly, "touch -t").
That's a Linux gotcha if anything.
I fear the page will get too noisy/large if including such system policies.
cheers,
Pádraig