Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 22:09:56 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> Cc: Mikhail Evstiounin <evstiounin@adelphia.net>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, James A Wilde <james.wilde@telia.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: chmod command doesn't work was: chmod: invalid file mode: 04711 Message-ID: <20000115220956.B1516@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <3880C71C.422A1ED9@3-cities.com> References: <006401bf5f72$8fac2fc0$d0353018@evstiouninadelphia.net.pit.adelphia.net> <3880C71C.422A1ED9@3-cities.com>
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Kent Stewart wrote:
> It wouldn't surprise me if "test" was being replaced with "[". I would
> use a better name than "test", which has a special meaning to the
> shell.
huh? It has no more special meaning than any other command, external or
builtin, does. Since it's not being used as a command here, it would be
a severely broken shell giving it any special meaning.
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