{"id":14521,"date":"2011-03-09T11:45:31","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T09:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=14521"},"modified":"2011-03-09T11:45:31","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T09:45:31","slug":"chmod-text-modes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/09\/chmod-text-modes\/","title":{"rendered":"chmod text modes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I came across this blog<\/a> post which praises text modes for \/bin\/chmod<\/em>.<\/p>\n

There are two ways you can change file permissions in Unix – one is using\u00a0chmod<\/code>‘s symbolic (text) modes (like\u00a0chmod ug+x file<\/code>), the other is using the octal modes (like\u00a0chmod 0660 file<\/code>). It turns out that symbolic modes are more powerful because you can mask out the permission bits you want to change! Octal permission modes are absolute and can’t be used to change individual bits. Octal modes are also sometimes called absolute because of that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I have to agree, they are superior. \u00a0However I feel like the article needs more examples. \u00a0So here we go.<\/p>\n

Use “u” for user, “g” for group, “o” for others, and “a” for all, or you can use a combination of letters, similar to how you do for access rights:<\/p>\n

\r\n\r\n$ chmod ug+rw *.php\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n
This will make all .php files in current directory readable and writable by both user and group.<\/p>\n
Use several permission changes within one command. \u00a0Just separate them by comma.<\/p>\n
\r\n\r\n$ chmod a-rwx,ug+rw,o+r *.php\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n
The above will reset permissions on all .php files to readable by all and writable only by user and group.<\/p>\n
And my favorite and most used example, which would be tricky with octal permissions is the “X”. \u00a0In recursive change mode, “X” will affect executable bit only on directories. \u00a0Difference by illustration:<\/p>\n
\r\n\r\n$ chmod -R a+x \/some\/path\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n
The above will add executable bit to all files and folders under \/some\/path.<\/p>\n
\r\n\r\n$ chmod -R a+X \/some\/path\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n
But the above will add executable bit only to folders under \/some\/path. \u00a0The files will remain as they are.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n
I came across this blog post which praises text modes for \/bin\/chmod. There are two ways you can change file permissions in Unix – one is using\u00a0chmod‘s symbolic (text) modes (like\u00a0chmod ug+x file), the other is using the octal modes (like\u00a0chmod 0660 file). It turns out that symbolic modes are more powerful because you can … Continue reading chmod text modes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,6,133,62],"tags":[1960,616,74],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-14521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-linux","category-sysadmin","category-technology","tag-command-line","tag-filesystem","tag-tips"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7828,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/08\/22\/color-scheme-generator\/","url_meta":{"origin":14521,"position":0},"title":"Color scheme generator","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"August 22, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"There are plenty color scheme generators on the web. 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