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Date:      Thu, 6 Dec 2001 10:51:28 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
To:        Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com>
Cc:        George Reid <greid@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Modifying only certain bits with chmod
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.31.0112061049360.6883-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <009101c17c12$649fe2e0$0a00000a@atkielski.com>

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On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Anthony Atkielski wrote:

> I ended up modifying the command, which was easier (for me) than memorizing the
> symbolic syntax.

...

> So ... what's the safest way to make this my system-wide command
> without interfering with the standard chmod source and stuff?  I
> guess I could just copy the modified binary over to bin, no?  What
> do most people do when they develop their own local custom versions
> of a command?

Minimum impact: stick it in /usr/local/bin and ensure that that
directory comes before /bin on your path.

> I'm tempted to modify my own man page to reflect the change, but
> looking at the chmod.1 file, it seems pretty scary.

It's just HTML without angle brackets.

jan

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