change permitions in user home
Doug Pollard
dougpol1 at verizon.net
Mon Aug 11 17:38:49 UTC 2008
Verde Denim wrote:
>
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> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Doug Pollard <dougpol1 at verizon.net
> <mailto:dougpol1 at verizon.net>> wrote:
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> Raphael Yves Sabbat wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Doug Pollard
> <dougpol1 at verizon.net <mailto:dougpol1 at verizon.net>
> > <mailto: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
>
>
> Doug
> 755 is the permission for the file - translating into rwxr-xr-x
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OK, I am trying to change the permissions of maybe 30 out of a hundred
files. How do I designate which files to change. I don't want to
change them all. If I put in 755 will it change all the files that
don't meet that criteria or standard. Is that the way it works?
thanks
Doug
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