Ondrej Vasik wrote: > Therefore @ sign was chosen > based on http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=8391#59 ...
The choice was pretty random: "we can choose some otherwise-unused character, such as '@'." By the same argument one could also choose any of '%' '^' ',' '.' '_' > However, you are right that = is more intuitive (using exact mode, when > specified as first character) - but using it for that will either change > behaviour or confuse people for 'chmod =rwx DIR' usecase, if there are > special bits on directory. Then how about using "==" or ":=" to designate the assignment? chmod ==755 DIR or chmod :=755 DIR Both somehow remind assignment. The "==" choice also is similar with chmod 00755 DIR Bruno
