[indiana-discuss] [osol-discuss] why gnu chmod in os2008.11?

[Casper.Dik at Sun.COM]

>Hi,
>
>i'm not sure if it is really necessary to have all the GNU tools
>preferred over Solaris tools. The most user expect GNU behaviour of tar
>(-z, -j), grep (-r), find (-iname, . as default path) and may be some
>other tools. But for ls, chmod and df (zfs) i assume the most GNU
>familiar users would also prefer the advantages of the native tools. May
>be it is a good idea to move some of the tools to /opt/gnu/bin.

I agree (though I also use, incorrectly names, maxdepth and mindepth *)


Casper


* A proper find option would be "-filedepth +/-[num]"