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| author | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2020-02-15 11:16:35 +0000 |
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| committer | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2020-02-15 11:24:15 +0000 |
| commit | 61c49d369369773b45beeac659fa32b6f481e8be (patch) | |
| tree | 6ee6355a8f9ecba3e02d365ed5b6c80ee3841e50 /doc | |
| parent | 3150f4a82ef6542c4a8f0bf413815e78766f044f (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-61c49d369369773b45beeac659fa32b6f481e8be.tar.gz | |
doc: clarify that '%a' stat format outputs mode bits
* src/stat.c (usage): Mention permission bits rather than
"access" so there is no confusion with ACLs etc.
Also indicate we output the file type with '%A'.
* doc/coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Likewise.
Also indicate '%A' is similar to `ls -ld` output.
Addresses https://bugs.gnu.org/39613
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index cb238f087..24e424c54 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -12438,8 +12438,8 @@ The valid @var{format} directives for files with @option{--format} and @option{--printf} are: @itemize @bullet -@item %a - Access rights in octal (note @samp{#} and @samp{0} printf flags) -@item %A - Access rights in human readable form +@item %a - Permission bits in octal (note @samp{#} and @samp{0} printf flags) +@item %A - Permission bits in symbolic form (similar to @command{ls -ld}) @item %b - Number of blocks allocated (see @samp{%B}) @item %B - The size in bytes of each block reported by @samp{%b} @item %C - The SELinux security context of a file, if available |