Re: chmod

[Paul Jarc]

joe smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> chmod is suppose to have a switch call "a+x" according to sun,

Sun's documentation describes Sun's chmod program, not GNU's.  But
they happen to share this feature anyway.

> but it appear to not have this switch.

Works for me.

  $ ls -l foo
  -rw-r--r--    1 prj      default         0 Dec  4 15:20 foo
  $ chmod a+x foo
  $ ls -l foo
  -rwxr-xr-x    1 prj      default         0 Dec  4 15:20 foo
  $ chmod --version
  chmod (coreutils) 5.0
  Written by David MacKenzie.

  Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
  warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

If you're using an older version of GNU chmod, try upgrading.  If
you're using a non-GNU implementation of chmod, you'll have to talk to
whoever wrote that implementation.


paul