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authorEdward Welbourne <eddy@chaos.org.uk>2014-03-19 16:19:08 +0000
committerPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2014-03-19 19:07:44 +0000
commitc9e410761d03be58f490e9be4196afbdc67974c8 (patch)
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parent137a4239751802b7d59ac3ef9c42fbe03547b2bc (diff)
downloadcoreutils-c9e410761d03be58f490e9be4196afbdc67974c8.tar.xz
doc: avoid regex ambiguity in chmod mode description
* man/chmod.x: s/[+-=]/[-+=]/ * doc/perm.texi (Symbolic Modes): Likewise. * THANKS.in: Remove patch owner. Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/17041
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diff --git a/man/chmod.x b/man/chmod.x
index e5372db27..190191f43 100644
--- a/man/chmod.x
+++ b/man/chmod.x
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ which can be either a symbolic representation of changes to make, or
an octal number representing the bit pattern for the new mode bits.
.PP
The format of a symbolic mode is [\c
-\fBugoa\fP.\|.\|.][[\fB+-=\fP][\fIperms\fP.\|.\|.].\|.\|.],
+\fBugoa\fP.\|.\|.][[\fB-+=\fP][\fIperms\fP.\|.\|.].\|.\|.],
where
.I "perms"
is either zero or more letters from the set