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Old March 25th, 2008, 12:56 AM
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Wink Changing permissions
When I type...
chmod 777 test.txt
The permission changes to...
-rwxrwxrwx

What if I want it to look like this...
-rw-rw----
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will suggest you read on how chmod work

in you example, it would be
chmod ug=rw test.txt
or
chmod 660 test.txt
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it's basically binary...

Code:
000 = 0
001 = 1
010 = 2
100 = 4

rwx rwx rwx
111 111 111 -> 7 7 7

--- --- ---
000 000 000 - 0 0 0

rwx rw- r--
111 110 100 -> 7 6 4

and so on.
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