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Re: Bugreport for ChMod


From: Brian Dessent
Subject: Re: Bugreport for ChMod
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 10:23:32 -0700

Michael Gorbovitski wrote:

> Maybe we could add several examples, to either the help or the man page?
> 
> And no, neither the man page nor the info page is much better.

What are you talking about?  The info page has an entire section on
this:

$ info coreutils "Symbolic modes" -o - --subnodes 2>/dev/null | wc
    288    1528    9654

That's a fifteen-hundred word explanation on the syntax and meaning
behind symbolic modes, and there are 19 examples by my count.  --help
output and man pages are supposed to be short and concise.

Brian





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