May 2018
Beginner
332 pages
7h 28m
English
Content preview from Learning Linux Shell Scripting - Second Edition
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Technique two – the numeric method
The following command will change the file permissions using the octal technique:
$ chmod 777 file_name
The file permission 777 can be understood as 111 111 111, which corresponds to the rwx.rwx.rwx permissions.