Quote:
Originally Posted by shake
I never understood the capital R for recursive on chmod, most *nix functions use lower case.
|
If this isn't a joke/troll, I'd be happy to answer. The reason is that -r and +r are for setting the bit. For example, you can do chmod +r or chmod -r (or chmod +x, etc) on a file/group of files. The -R is distinct because it's a capital -- it's not a file bit.
Make sense?