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Date:      Mon, 3 Dec 2001 14:47:22 +0000
From:      George Reid <greid@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Modifying only certain bits with chmod
Message-ID:  <20011203144722.A19484@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <007a01c17c08$fd7f1030$0a00000a@atkielski.com>; from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com on Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 03:44:18PM %2B0100
References:  <007a01c17c08$fd7f1030$0a00000a@atkielski.com>

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On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 03:44:18PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote:

> Am I missing something, or is there no way to set or reset only certain
> permission bits--while leaving the others unchanged--using chmod with the octal
> permissions field?  If chmod doesn't allow this, is there any other similar
> command that does?

As chmod(1) says, modes are specified in symbolic or absolute (octal) 
form.

-- 
George C A Reid			   Tel: (08701) 200870  Ext. 26654
FreeBSD Committer/Developer             greid@FreeBSD.org
Oriel College, Oxford University        george.reid@oriel.ox.ac.uk

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