GNU bug report logs - #17041
Minor glitch in regex

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Edward Welbourne <edward.welbourne <at> cfengine.com>

Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 15:47:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

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From: Edward Welbourne <edward.welbourne <at> cfengine.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Minor glitch in regex
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 11:20:31 +0100

In the info page for "chmod invocation",
node 27.2 Symbolic Modes, <quote>

The format of symbolic modes is:

[ugoa...][+-=]PERMS...[,...]

</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.

    Eddy.
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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Edward Welbourne <edward.welbourne <at> cfengine.com>
Cc: 17041-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17041: Minor glitch in regex
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 16:29:59 +0000

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
On 03/19/2014 10:20 AM, Edward Welbourne wrote:
> In the info page for "chmod invocation",
> node 27.2 Symbolic Modes, <quote>
> 
> The format of symbolic modes is:
> 
> [ugoa...][+-=]PERMS...[,...]
> 
> </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.


[chmod-regex-ambiguity.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]
bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Thu, 17 Apr 2014 11:24:03 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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