change permitions in user home

[Doug Pollard]

Raphael Yves Sabbat wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Doug Pollard <dougpol1 at verizon.net 
> <mailto: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
>
  Does the arbitrary number 755 that you used represent a file number?  
How do I find this number.        Thanks Doug