sudo's Hall of pain
sudo's Hall of pain
That's what -R does in chmod as well? I feel like something here is going completely over my head. Or are you-all using another version of chmod?
chmod -r uses symbolic mode. Specifically it removes read permissions for the file. Other forms include w for write and x for executable. + can be used to add permission.
Aha! I didn't get that you meant the issue was accidentally using -r instead of -R since both you and OP wrote the upper case one.
I'm a lot more used to -R so I instead get caught off by commands where that means something other than recursive :)
I mostly use symbolic mode and honestly don't get why everyone else seems to use octal all the time.
People probably confuse it with tools like cp, rm, ls, etc as they use -r for file recursion.
ls -r actually lists entries in reverse order! It needs -R as well.
cp and rm accept either.
Looking at some man pages the only commands I found where -R didn't work were scp and gzip where it doesn't do anything, and rsync where it's "use relative path names".
(Caveat: BSD utils might be different, who knows what those devils get up to!)