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Date:      Wed, 5 Apr 2000 02:03:45 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: chmod (gnu version) -c switch
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004050201460.10783-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <200004050659.IAA62867@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de>

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On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Christoph Kukulies wrote:

> While adapting a script that was originally written for Linux
> I came across an option -c --changes to chmod which verbosely
> lists the files whose permissions are actually changed by chmod.
> 
> Is there a way to have this under FreeBSD also? Like another set of
> these elementary utilities one can switch over temporarily? 

You mean like chmod -v? Of course, neither -c nor -v are portable so care
should be taken in their use.

> Do /compat/linux/bin programs work?

Yes, but there's no need.

> Would changing the path towards
> picking these binaries first be a solution in that case?

I don't recommend that.

Kris

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