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Date:      Fri, 7 Dec 2001 00:57:48 +0100
From:      "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com>
To:        "Frank Laszlo" <nez_lists@yahoo.com>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, <jtaylor@precisioncs.net>
Subject:   Re: Modifying only certain bits with chmod
Message-ID:  <003401c17eb1$d0497230$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
References:  <B8351BB0.1357D%nez_lists@yahoo.com>

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Jason and Frank,

See

ftp://ftp.atkielski.com/pub/custom/nls.tar.gz

Hopefully I made the tarball correctly; I downloaded it and expanded it and
it looked correct.

The command is still named ls; you'll need to rename it to put it alongside
the standard command.

I haven't changed the man page for the command, but if you just use 'p' as
an option (lowercase), e.g., "ls -lp", you'll get the permissions as four
octal digits instead of the usual letter expansion.

I also put the tweaked version of chmod out there:

ftp://ftp.atkielski.com/pub/custom/nchmod.tar.gz

This tweaked version lets you specify "xxx:yyy" in the mode field; if you
use this format, the one bits in the mask yyy identify which bits in xxx are
to replace the corresponding bits in the file mode field, and the zero bits
in the mask identify the bits in the file mode field that are to remain
unchanged.

Same comments as for the ls tweak above with respect to man page and command
name.

Neither has been exhaustively tested but they both seem to work.



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