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bug#17041: Minor glitch in regex
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Pádraig Brady |
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bug#17041: Minor glitch in regex |
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Date: |
Wed, 19 Mar 2014 16:29:59 +0000 |
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On 03/19/2014 10:20 AM, Edward Welbourne wrote:
> In the info page for "chmod invocation",
> node 27.2 Symbolic Modes, <quote>
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> The format of symbolic modes is:
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> [ugoa...][+-=]PERMS...[,...]
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> </quote>
> the [+-=] is naturally read as "every character from + through =" due
> to the special meaning of - in a character class. I suggest [+=-]
> would be more apt. It is possible the same pattern is repeated
> elsewhere in the manual.
[-+=] was already used in chmod --help so I went with that.
I'll push the attached in your name in a while.
thanks,
Pádraig.
chmod-regex-ambiguity.patch
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