Re: On new names for "Deity"
On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Behan Webster wrote:
> bruce@va.debian.org wrote:
> >
> > > Hmm... perhaps we should have a version of chmod which works in decimal,
> > > for the numerically religious?
> >
> > I guess this is why the symbolic arguments were put in chmod. You can give
> > something like "chmod uga+rw" if I remember it correctly.
>
> To be pedantic...
>
> chmod ugo-x+rw <filename>
chmod ugo=rw <files>
or,
chmod u=rw,go=r <files>
etc
I find it simpler to work with the characters than ocal because I always
have to look up which numbers mean which modes and then add them all up.
That and I find being able to mask permissions very handy.
Jason
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