Earlier we discussed about how to use octal permission bits with chmod. In this article, let us review how to use symbolic representation with chmod.
Following are the symbolic representation of three different roles:
Chmod 755 mac, Oct 20, 2016 WELL this is a command to change the permission of a file. Chmod stand for the: change mode. And 775 means you are giving the permission to the file. R stand for read.its value is 4. W stand for the write.its value is 2. X stand for the execute.i. In the Terminal app on your Mac, use the cd command to move into the directory that contains the file you want to make executable. For example:% cd YourScriptDirectory. Enter the chmod command. For example:% chmod 755 YourScriptName.sh. After making the shell script file executable, you can run it by entering its pathname.
- u is for user,
- g is for group,
- and o is for others.
Following are the symbolic representation of three different permissions:
- r is for read permission,
- w is for write permission,
- x is for execute permission.
Following are few examples on how to use the symbolic representation on chmod.
1. Add single permission to a file/directory
Changing permission to a single set. + symbol means adding permission. For example, do the following to give execute permission for the user irrespective of anything else:
2. Add multiple permission to a file/directory
Use comma to separate the multiple permission sets as shown below.
3. Remove permission from a file/directory
Following example removes read and write permission for the user.
4. Change permission for all roles on a file/directory
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Following example assigns execute privilege to user, group and others (basically anybody can execute this file).
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5. Make permission for a file same as another file (using reference)
If you want to change a file permission same as another file, use the reference option as shown below. In this example, file2’s permission will be set exactly same as file1’s permission.
6. Apply the permission to all the files under a directory recursively
Use option -R to change the permission recursively as shown below.
7. Change execute permission only on the directories (files are not affected)
On a particular directory if you have multiple sub-directories and files, the following command will assign execute permission only to all the sub-directories in the current directory (not the files in the current directory).
Note: If the files has execute permission already for either the group or others, the above command will assign the execute permission to the user
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