[Gllug] rm -R not working on Fedora

[Benedikt Heinen]

> Firstly, chmod and cp are not the same binary, so why should you expect
> them to behave in the same way just because you pass them the same
> letter as a parameter?

In general you don't need to expect it - but in general it's tried more 
and more that common functionality uses common command line flags (-v is 
usually for "verbose", -f is often used for "force" and -r for 
"recursive").

Obviously, there are also commands that use the same flags for different 
purposes if they don't have a similar function to the common one, or if 
there are "historical" reasons for it...


>> chmod -R 644 *.html
[...]
> Secondly, that command would not touch anything in any subdirectories
> unless at least one of the directories in the current working directory
> also ended in .html.

Not to nitpick - but this command line wouldn't even change files within a 
directory ending in .html ...


...simply because it would first set the directory permissions to 644, and 
afterwards it wouldn't be able to access the directory (which requires the 
execute permission)...






> I unfortunately do not know how to turn cheese into gold.

That's too bad - it would be a nice thing if you knew. That would at least 
result in ONE use for cheese...  ...cheese... Yak! ;-)




   Benedikt

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