Re: Coreutils-gotchas

[Jim Meyering]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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...

Deserved. Great list, indeed.

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

Surely you meant to use grep's -c option :-)

  grep -cF coreutils-gotchas.html access_log