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Please tell me what this command mean on chmod?
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| michael.mondala@ihomeowner.com 2004-10-28, 5:51 pm |
| I am new to this. I am following instructions on setting up a program
on unix. Can you please tell me what this mean:
> chmod 777 .
What is the period? Thank you.
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| Juha Laiho 2004-10-28, 5:51 pm |
| michael.mondala@ihomeowner.com said:
>I am new to this. I am following instructions on setting up a program
>on unix. Can you please tell me what this mean:
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>What is the period? Thank you.
The current working directory.
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| Ed Morton 2004-10-28, 5:51 pm |
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michael.mondala@ihomeowner.com wrote:
> I am new to this. I am following instructions on setting up a program
> on unix. Can you please tell me what this mean:
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> What is the period? Thank you.
All UNIX commands have manual pages. Use "man chmod" on your UNIX system
to see them, or take a look at this web page:
http://www.rt.com/man/chmod.1.html
Ed.
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| John Gordon 2004-10-28, 5:51 pm |
| In <1098979217.011284.46880@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> michael.mondala@ihomeowner.com writes:
> I am new to this. I am following instructions on setting up a program
> on unix. Can you please tell me what this mean:
[vbcol=seagreen]
> What is the period? Thank you.
The current directory. And the parent directory is two periods (..)
--
John Gordon "Between BST melee, their spells, their warders' melee,
gordon@panix.com and their warders' procs, they put out enough damage
to make monks cry." -- Dark Tyger
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| michael.mondala@ihomeowner.com 2004-10-28, 5:51 pm |
| So does the ( . ) changes the permissions on the files and directories
in the directory its in? Or does it only change the directory?
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| On 2004-10-28, michael.mondala@ihomeowner.com
<michael.mondala@ihomeowner.com> wrote:
> So does the ( . ) changes the permissions on the files and directories
> in the directory its in? Or does it only change the directory?
Does
chmod 777 directory
changes the permissions on the files and directories in the directory
its in? Or does it only change the directory?
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j p d (at) d s b (dot) t u d e l f t (dot) n l .
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| Steve Graegert 2004-10-29, 2:48 am |
| michael.mondala@ihomeowner.com wrote:
> So does the ( . ) changes the permissions on the files and directories
> in the directory its in? Or does it only change the directory?
Yes it will change the permissions of the directory you are currently
in. The dot will always reference the _current_ directory as with the cd
command, the chmod command or all the other commands.
\Steve
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