On 03/19/2014 10:20 AM, Edward Welbourne wrote: > In the info page for "chmod invocation", > node 27.2 Symbolic Modes, > > The format of symbolic modes is: > > [ugoa...][+-=]PERMS...[,...] > > > 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.