[debbugs-tracker] bug#17041: closed (Minor glitch in regex)

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> Minor glitch in regex
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> Wed, 19 Mar 2014 11:20:31 +0100
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> In the info page for "chmod invocation",
> node 27.2 Symbolic Modes, <quote>
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> The format of symbolic modes is:
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> [ugoa...][+-=]PERMS...[,...]
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> the [+-=] is naturally read as "every character from + through =" due
> to the special meaning of - in a character class.  I suggest [+=-]
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>     Eddy.
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: bug#17041: Minor glitch in regex Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 16:29:59 +0000 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130110 Thunderbird/17.0.2

On 03/19/2014 10:20 AM, Edward Welbourne wrote:
> In the info page for "chmod invocation",
> node 27.2 Symbolic Modes, <quote>
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> The format of symbolic modes is:
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> [ugoa...][+-=]PERMS...[,...]
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> </quote>
> the [+-=] is naturally read as "every character from + through =" due
> to the special meaning of - in a character class.  I suggest [+=-]
> would be more apt.  It is possible the same pattern is repeated
> elsewhere in the manual.

[-+=] was already used in chmod --help so I went with that.
I'll push the attached in your name in a while.

thanks,
Pádraig.

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