Well, we have our two-line script; time to see if it really does what we want it to do:
gzarrelli:~$ ./test.sh-bash: ./test.sh: Permission denied
No way! It is not executing, and from the error message, it seems related to the file permissions:
gzarrelli:~$ ls -lah test.sh -rw-r--r-- 1 gzarrelli gzarrelli 41 Jan 21 18:56 test.sh
Interesting. Let us recap what the file permissions are. As you can see, the line describing the properties of a file starts with a series of letters and lines.
|
Type |
User |
Group |
Others |
|
- |
rw- |
r-- |
r-- |
For type, we can have two main values, d - this is actually a directory, or - and means this is a regular file. Then, we can see what permissions are set for the user owning ...
