Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!virtech!cpcahil
From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Changing DIRs to Files...
Message-ID: <1990Sep19.015106.22922@virtech.uucp>
Date: 19 Sep 90 01:51:06 GMT
References: <2284@gmuvax2.gmu.edu>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <2284@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> jnorman@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Sci-Fi) writes:
>How can one change the file type attibute ???  for instance...
>
>drwxr--r-- to
>~rwxr--r--
>

How about cp (like in cp dir file) followed by rm -rf dir; mv file dir

Or if you are really trying to change that bit, you can use fsdb (not
for the light-hearted), or write a quick and dirty program to 
read the raw filesystem to make the change.  To do either of these
things you normally need root access (since mucking around in the 
file system can damage it and cause a system panic).


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