On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 06:15:17AM -0500, Brian Fahrlander wrote: > I didn't realize that no "a" intimates an "a". I've been using > "chmod a+x myfile" since the late 80's. Good to know. It's not exactly the same -- without the "a", it's as if the "a" were given but the bits set in the umask are not touched: $ umask 0002 $ touch somefile $ chmod 0 somefile $ ls -l somefile ---------- 1 mattdm mattdm 0 Oct 13 09:35 somefile $ chmod +rw somefile $ ls -l somefile -rw-rw-r-- 1 mattdm mattdm 0 Oct 13 09:35 somefile $ chmod a+rw somefile $ ls -l somefile -rw-rw-rw- 1 mattdm mattdm 0 Oct 13 09:35 somefile -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
