From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 15 15:37:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D286A150F1 for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2000 15:37:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 129bOO-000J7p-00; Sat, 15 Jan 2000 22:09:56 +0000 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #1) id 129bOO-0000Ov-00; Sat, 15 Jan 2000 22:09:56 +0000 Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 22:09:56 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: Kent Stewart Cc: Mikhail Evstiounin , Alfred Perlstein , James A Wilde , 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> References: <006401bf5f72$8fac2fc0$d0353018@evstiouninadelphia.net.pit.adelphia.net> <3880C71C.422A1ED9@3-cities.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <3880C71C.422A1ED9@3-cities.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message