How to tell what the CHMOD value of a file/directory is
chmod alters the permissions for a file or directory, you could allow full read/write access to a file or directory by running the following command:
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You could do the same on a directory recursively:
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But if we look at the directory listing of this path now, we can’t tell what integer value this affected:
How to get the CHMOD value
If we want to get the actual integer value back, we could use the stat command and tell it what we want from it:
Each of the below command will now return a 777 back.