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>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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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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