Changing File Access Permissions with chmod
Your use of chmod can be greatly extended through one simple parameter: -c. This instructs chmod to print a list of all the changes it made as part of its operation, which means we can capture the output and use it for other purposes. For example:
matthew@seymour:~$ chmod -c 600 *mode of '1.txt' changed to 0600 (rw------)mode of '2.txt' changed to 0600 (rw------)mode of '3.txt' changed to 0600 (rw------)matthew@seymour:~$ chmod -c 600 *matthew@seymour:~$
There the chmod command is issued with -c, and you can see it has output the result of the operation: Three files were changed to rw------ (read and write by user only). However, when the command is issued again, no output ...
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