Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 17:00:43 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Modifying only certain bits with chmod Message-ID: <20011203170043.T60143@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <007a01c17c08$fd7f1030$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <007a01c17c08$fd7f1030$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 03:44:18PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Am I missing something, or is there no way to set or reset only certain > permission bits--while leaving the others unchanged--using chmod with the octal > permissions field? If chmod doesn't allow this, is there any other similar > command that does? > It does. > Essentially what I was thinking of was, say, clearing a write bit on the > permissions of a group of files without changing any of the other bits (which > may not be the same for each file). The symbolic form of the chmod command is > awkward (at least for me). > chmod g-w <files> Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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