Debian Bug report logs - #642761
[coreutils] chmod: manual page confusing about difference between MODE and OCTAL-MODE

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Package: coreutils; Maintainer for coreutils is Michael Stone <[email protected]>; Source for coreutils is src:coreutils (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Filipus Klutiero <[email protected]>

Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 22:00:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version coreutils/8.13-2

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Bug#642761; Package coreutils. (Sat, 24 Sep 2011 22:00:05 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

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From: Filipus Klutiero <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [coreutils] chmod: manual page confusing about difference between MODE and OCTAL-MODE
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 17:57:44 -0400
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Package: coreutils
Version: 8.13-2
Severity: minor

The chmod SYNOPSIS has these 2 most prominent usages:

> chmod  [OPTION]... MODE[,MODE]... FILE...
>  chmod  [OPTION]... OCTAL-MODE FILE... 

The description then says:
> chmod  changes the file mode bits of each given file according to 
> /mode/, which can be either a symbolic representation of changes to 
> make, or an octal number representing the bit pattern for the new mode 
> bits. 

without distinguishing between MODE and OCTAL-MODE.

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