Re: Execute permission question

From: Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:41:49 +0000
Subject: Re: Execute permission question
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On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Tedd Sperling <tedd.sperling@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi gang: > > Another question -- in the context of file permissions (rwx) is the execute permission limited > to shell commands -- Or -- is there more? Not sure I fully understand your question, but to execute anything directly - shell script, python script, perl script, binary program - you need the x bit set. I say directly because you could do: 'perl script' without script being executable (because in that case it's an argument to the perl executable). HTH, -larry

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