Re: Coreutils-gotchas

[Pádraig Brady]

On 30/11/15 17:37, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 11/28/2015 11:34 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote:
>> On 11/29/2015 12:16 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>
>>>> I must collate some gotchas like this.
>>>
>>> Initial list started at:
>>> http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/coreutils-gotchas.html
>>>
>>
>> Fantastic list!
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> On the chmod entry, it might also be worth mentioning that:
> 
>  chmod -R a-x,a+X
> 
> works to remove execute permissions on regular files but not
> directories, without needing a 'find'/'xargs' pair.

I added that for completeness.
BTW this list has gone viral...

$ grep -F coreutils-gotchas.html access_log | wc -l
20986

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10648255
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3uogjv/gnu_coreutils_gotchas/

Though now has dropped off those main pages

cheers,
Pádraig