On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 11:55:04AM -0500, Eric Sunshine wrote: > The '^' and '.' tokens in the grep expression [...] > > [...] only use "ls -ld" after checking that such usage is valid I'm 95% certain that each of these worked in 6th-Edition Bell Labs UNIX, so it'd have to be a truly perverse platform that failed to support them. Of course I'm not stating categorically that such platforms don't exist, but I'd want to know the name and version of one -- and more to the point, its relevence in 2003 -- before I went to any effort at all to code around its crazy limitations. On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 07:19:56PM +0100, Jan Kratochvil wrote: > chmod +w builddir/FILE On the other hand, I don't know how far back it goes that "chmod +mode" (as opposed to "chmod a+mode") honours the umask. If it's a V7ism, fine; but if there are relevent platforms in which that's not the case, then: chmod u+w builddir/FILE would be safer. -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont. erics@xxxxxxxxxxxx | | / It must be said that they would have sounded better if the singer wouldn't throw his fellow band members to the ground and toss the drum kit around during songs. - Patrick Lenneau
