[Labs-l] [tools] New version of take

Petr Bena benapetr at gmail.com
Sat Jun 22 13:44:10 UTC 2013


If you feel like a hacker, you can join us in testing it on toolsbeta
project, if you discover a security hole, you win a cookie!

On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Petr Bena <benapetr at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Since there were some issues and requests related to take utility, I
> created new, better version :) licensed under GPL
> @https://github.com/benapetr/take
>
> Improvements:
>
> * More secure (doesn't follow symlinks by default and have extra
> security checks)
> * More descriptive (support --verbose)
> * Follow GNU standards for parameters (you can take -- -blah in order
> to take -blah)
> * Support -h (--help)
> * Support overtaking of group as well (--group)
>
> I will deploy it to beta soonish where we can test it and if there is
> no issue, we can replace the current version we use



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