bug#30477: [PATCH] chmod chown chgrp: added --exclude-files and --exclude-directories

[Ian Morris Nieves]

Hi Pádraig,  Thanks for following along and writing.

The reasoning is similar.  They are missing the files only counterpart.
-F and -D would be good short forms.  I left those out because I envisioned 
bringing similar functionality (with same invocation) to cp and ls.
Unfortunately ls already has -D and -F, and the use case for ls was not clear 
to me.  But if there is a good case for ls having this functionality, then 
perhaps -F and -D are not ideal.

Apologies, I didn’t know about the discussion.  I was itching to take a deep 
dive into Linux commands as a break from a way too deep dive into Docker 
containers.

Cheers,
ian


> On Feb 17, 2018, at 4:30 PM, Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> On 15/02/18 16:44, Ian Morris Nieves wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> Apologies if I have incorrectly followed any conventions.  I’ve tried.
>> Attached please find a new feature I created to simplify setting permissions 
>> (especially recursively), which enables the user to separately target files 
>> or directories.
>> Tests of correctness also included.
>> 
>> Any input or feedback greatly appreciated.
> 
> Such functionality has been discussed previously at:
> https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/rejected_requests.html#chmod
> 
> thanks,
> Pádraig