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Chmod examples using octal mode First column shows the chmod command , second column shows how the value is calculated for the permission;The chmod command is used to control the access permissions for directories We can use the octal notation to set permissions To describe the octal notation, we can add permission values to obtain new, combined (octal) values Permission values 1 – able to execute (x) 2 – able to write (w) 4 – able to read (r)In python it's possible to use octal values or use values defined in the stat module import os # Everything for user and group and read and exec for other os chmod ("/somedir/somefile", 0775) # SGID bit set Everything for user and group and read and exec for other os chmod ("/somedir/somefile", ) Chmod with Ruby What Does Chmod 755 Do Quora Chmod octal numbers

Rwx rwx rwx ==> ( r = 4 ) if set ( w = 2) if set (x = 1) if set , for example You have rwwxrw => (4)(021)(4) = 0636 First argument before 9 permissions is one of = regular file d = directory b = block device c = character device s = socket p = pipe f = fifo So rwr–r– would equal to I then would then drop the first number and group it into threes Here is the binary conversion to our 10 based system 110 100 100 = 644 So to match the permissions of the other files in the directory I can do this $ chmod 644 testtxt After chmod 777 dir your command prints permissions as 767 – Julian F Weinert Apr 24 '14 at 1055 As Donna mentions, there is a funny character (or 2) between the 0 and o, also, weirdly it looks like SO is adding it To calculate the octal number for this special flags, Ownership And Permissions How to give chmod 777