change permitions in user home

[Raphael Yves Sabbat]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Doug Pollard <dougpol1 at verizon.net> wrote:

> I need to change permissions on some of my user files.   I have the
> command but i need to know how to apply it to an individual file.  Do I
> click on the file and then put in the command.   That dosn't seem to
> work.  Been reading all morning can find ways to change all the files
> but not to single out an individual file.  I have files that everybody
> can write to ,read and exicute and I want to change just those files so
> that I as the owner of them can write to them.
>            Thanks Doug
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You can do it in the terminal, the command would look like this:
sudo chmod 755 /path/of/your/file.extension

Assuming 755 is what you want
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