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Using the chmod command to change file permissions on a UNIX/Linux system.

Using the chmod command to change file permissions on a UNIX/Linux system.

-rw-rw-r-- 1 john john 203  09-02-12 07:16 pm out.out

This file listing detail shows the information about the current file. The listing -rw-rw-r– shows the permissions for user, group and world. In this example, the user has read and write access, the group has read and write access and the world has read only access.

With this command, I am setting the permissions to -rw——-.

chmod 600 out.out

This example sets the permissions to -rw-r–r–.

chmod 644 out.out

To set the file as executable this command will perform this action, -rwx——.

chmod 700 out.out

if you wish to have the file executable and readable for the group, -rwxr–r–, this command will make this possible.

chmod 744 out.out

To make the file executable for everyone, like this: -rwxr-xr-x.

chmod 755 out.out

This is quite a malicious and pointless command, this will make the file executable but not readable for anyone.

chmod -rw-rw-rw-- out.out

The result is this.

john@deep-thought Documents $ ls -hula out.out
---x--x--x 1 john john 203  09-02-12 09:41 pm out.out
Setting permissions with Dolphin in KDE.
Setting permissions with Dolphin in KDE.

Using the command line is faster than the GUI interface if you are setting permissions for multiple files at once. This is why the UNIX command line that Linux inherited is better than the graphical user interface any day.

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