Easy Way To Calculate UNIX File Permissions

Those who knows how to calculate UNIX permission and convert them into octal format can understand this post easily but others can try to read this post thoroughly so that they can understand what read means in octal language? what write means in octal language? what execute means in octal language? in terms of permission. I hope everybody knows that UNIX permission consist of three blocks given as under; user group others

  • User
  • Group
  • Other

Octal

You need to know about the permission bit to correctly count the permission in octal format for a better understanding of the permissions in UNIX. The tool will provide you with an octal code that corresponds to these permissions which can then be applied to relevant directories and files with chmod command.

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