• BestBouclettes@jlai.lu
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    11 months ago

    Here is the breakdown:

    • chmod is the command to change the mode of the files (-rwxrwxrwx)
    • -R is the recurse flag,
    • a means “all”, you can also have u, g or o (respectively user, group and others) instead.
    • + is add (you can remove with -),
    • rw is the permissions (rw of rwx)

    I prefer changing permissions this way instead of using absolute values (0777 for instance) as it’s easier to reverse if you made a mistake.