David J. MacKenzie wrote:
> I'd be inclined to use find and xargs to do selective chmodding,
> rather than adding special cases to chmod.
>
> find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod a+r
That's a bit long and overwinded for such a common operation. After
all, I coded the thing in because of a need.
Besides, the same argument could be applied to the recursive option.
Why code in the "-R" option when you could just type:?
find . -print0 | xargs -0 chmod a+r
Also, the above statements wouldn't work if you didn't want to recurse
through subdirectories. It would be something like...I can't think of a
equiv statement at the moment, because 'ls -1' doesn't eliminate
files/dirs and 'find' does recursive directories only.
I can understand the need to reduce fluff/bloat in the main /bin
commands, but I'd like to have the more common options put in there.
The chmod command has a lot less options than most, including cp and rm.
Even with a option-bogged program like tar, everybody (including me) got
fed up with the lack of bzip2 option, even though Linux kernels were
being packaged with it (as is a lot of things). I coded the option as
-I (probably a poor choice, but I wanted to follow the system of
retaining the same letters as "bzip2"), and now I've seen it pop up in
other distros as both -I and others. (I've seen "-y", and my current
one uses "-j". I like "-y" the best, but I don't even know what's in
the official GNU distro.)
Anyway, my two cents...
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