[ubuntu-uk] rsync chgrp problem - advice, please?

[Neil Greenwood]

On 07/06/07, Robert McWilliam <rmcw at allmail.net> wrote:
> One thing I'd suggest for the future is not to use numerical
> permissions when manipulating them. chmod lets you specify the
> permissions using r,w and x and a,u,g, and o for who the permissions
> apply to (the syntax is in the chmod man page) and this is a lot less
> error prone. Your computer can turn the symbols into the required number
> faster and more accurately than you (or at least I) can.

Unfortunately for my street-cred ("Bah! What street-cred?" they
holler), I think better in the octal permissions and always forget
which of the a, u, g, o I need for a particular case!

This is probably the sort of admission I shouldn't be making in
public, especially since at least one of my colleagues (hi Moogman) is
reading this list!

Hwyl,
Neil.