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Minor glitch in regex

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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

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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)]

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