It would be nice if there was a symbolic permission meaning `all modes'. Say `a', for the sake of argument. It would useful in a command like chmod ug+rw,o-a to take away all permissions from `other'. o-rwxst, besides being verbose, feels like there might be some other kind of permission in the future or on some other system.
Another way to achieve the same result would be to allow numeric modes, at least after =, as in chmod ug+rw,o=0 (which gets `invalid mode string'). Just a thought ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
