Subject: Octal notation
From: Greg Madden (pabi@gci.net)
Date: Sun Nov 11 2001 - 21:39:27 AKST
Here is a nice reference originally gleaned from a Debian list, unknown
author.
Computing: "chmod 754" = "rwxr-xr--" (Please excuse the crudeness.)
User | Group | Other
------|-------|-------
r w x | r - x | r - -
4 2 1 | 4 2 1 | 4 2 1 <-- 3-bit Octal notation (binary representation)
------|-------|-------
\ | / | \ | / | \ | / <-- Add the octal bits
4+2+1 | 4+1 | 4
7 | 5 | 4 <-- 0-7 Octal notation
-- Greg Madden Precision Air Balance, Inc. email:pabi@gci.net Phone:(907)276-0461 Fax:(907)258-0461
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