Make that a=rw to set the permissions exactly ( which the numerical
form always does ). The + version adds rw and leaves x as it found
it... But be careful. Directories have to be executable or you can't
access their contents.
On Wednesday, February 10, 2010, Mark J. Reed <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 6 is read+write. 7 is read+write+execute. You could also use the
> symbolic form "a+rw" (all plus read write).
>
> The numbers are user, group, other, in that order, where each digit is
> the sum of the granted permissions: 4 for read, 2 for write, and 1 for
> execute.
>
> On Wednesday, February 10, 2010, Stockly, Ed <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Thanks Shane, that did the trick.
>>
>> The UNIX guys getting the files said they preferred 666 to 777, and I'm not
>> sure what the difference is, but it was easy enough to fix.
>>
>>
>> ES
>>
>> set procfile to quoted form of POSIX path of procfile
>> set permisionsShell to "chmod 666 " & procfile
>> do shell script permisionsShell
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2/10/10 3:38 PM, "Shane Stanley" wrote:
>>
>>> On 11/2/10 10:24 AM, "Ed Stockly" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is there a do shell script that can do this?
>>>
>>> Probably:
>>>
>>> do shell script "chmod 777 " & quoted form of POSIX path of ...
>>>
>>> For directories or packages where you want the whole contents changed:
>>>
>>> do shell script "chmod -R 777 " & quoted form of POSIX path of ...
>>>
>>
>
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