From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 5 2: 3:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5895937B7D3; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 02:03:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id CAA16845; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 02:03:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 02:03:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Christoph Kukulies Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: chmod (gnu version) -c switch In-Reply-To: <200004050659.IAA62867@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ---- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message