In the following example, the permissions of a public directory are changed from 744 (read, write, execute; read-only; and read-only) to 755 (read, write, execute; read and execute; and read and 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 |
In the following example, the permissions of an executable shell script are changed from read and write to read, write, and 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 |