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From: graham%ee.surrey.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk (Graham J Carpenter)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Testing execute permission from csh
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Date: 8 May 89 07:23:07 GMT
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>I want to change all the files to have world read permission, and all
>the executables to have world execute.  I tried the following in csh as
>root:
>
I usually use octal to set patterns with chmod, but the one time I use
letters is in exactly this situation.

chmod o+rX 

would have done the job for you.


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Graham Carpenter - graham@ee.surrey.ac.uk
Dept of Electronic and Electrical Engineering
University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 5XH.