The following example shows changing the permissions of a public directory from 744 (read/write/execute, read-only, and read-only) to 755 (read/write/execute, read/execute, and read/execute).
$ ls -ld public_dir drwxr--r-- 1 ignatz staff 6023 Aug 5 12:06 public_dir $ chmod 755 public_dir $ ls -ld public_dir drwxr-xr-x 1 ignatz staff 6023 Aug 5 12:06 public_dir |
The following example shows changing the permissions of an executable shell script from read/write to read/write/execute.
$ ls -l my_script -rw------- 1 ignatz staff 6023 Aug 5 12:06 my_script $ chmod 700 my_script $ ls -l my_script -rwx------ 1 ignatz staff 6023 Aug 5 12:06 my_script |