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Minor glitch in regex

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Edward Welbourne <edward.welbourne <at> cfengine.com>
Subject: bug#17041: closed (Re: bug#17041: Minor glitch in regex)
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 16:44:03 +0000

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Your bug report

#17041: Minor glitch in regex

which was filed against the coreutils package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 17041 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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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.

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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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