Re: xterm: either fix it, or remove it. please.

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>]

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On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:

> 2009/11/12 Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>:
>
> > the above is switching on a symbolic mode, and that final line is
> > using sed to convert the symbolic mode to the corresponding numeric
> > mode for installation.
> >
> >  that worked fine a few years back, but it fails on newer linux
> > distros for which the long listing might have a trailing period, as
> > does my fedora 11 system:
> >
> > $ ls -l /etc/passwd
> > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 2474 2009-11-09 14:59 /etc/passwd
> >          ^ there
>
> Hm. I've never ever heard about this trailing period. Where does it
> come from/how was it introduced?

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_FAQ#Why_does_ls_show_a_dot_.28..29_or_a_plus_.28.2B.29_at_the_end_on_the_file_modes_for_some_files.3F

rday
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