sudo’s Hall of pain

  • kattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 months ago

    That’s what -R does in chmod as well? I feel like something here is going completely over my head. Or are you-all using another version of chmod?

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        7 months ago

        Aha! I didn’t get that you meant the issue was accidentally using -r instead of -R since both you and OP wrote the upper case one.

        I’m a lot more used to -R so I instead get caught off by commands where that means something other than recursive :)

        I mostly use symbolic mode and honestly don’t get why everyone else seems to use octal all the time.

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          7 months ago

          People probably confuse it with tools like cp, rm, ls, etc as they use -r for file recursion.

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            7 months ago

            ls -r actually lists entries in reverse order! It needs -R as well.

            cp and rm accept either.

            Looking at some man pages the only commands I found where -R didn’t work were scp and gzip where it doesn’t do anything, and rsync where it’s “use relative path names”.

            (Caveat: BSD utils might be different, who knows what those devils get up to!)