[rhelv6-list] file permissions contains dot in rhel6

[Prentice Bisbal]

On 12/08/2010 01:42 PM, inode0 wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Collins, Kevin [BEELINE]
> <KCollins at chevron.com>  wrote:
>> Well, scripting around the "permission string" of ls -l is not something
>> I typically do, but that string is pretty much the same on every
>> platform I have worked on... until now :)
>>
>> But I would not be surprised to see this change breaking scripts that
>> others have.
>
> If the script wants a blank in that location it should already be
> doing something to account for the possibility that a + is there, so
> should be easy to modify to ignore the . too.
>
> John

I agree. Unless you provide more details, fixing your script to deal 
with the trailing period sounds trivial.

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Prentice