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Change File Permission on Linux

R: 4 W: 2 X: 1

Make a directory readable to other people.

chmod 755 dir  

Make a file readable to other people.

chmod 644 file 

Make a directory and all its subcontents readable to other people.

# make the dir and its subcontents readable and executable
chmod 755 -R dir
# remove executable permission from files
find dir -type f | xargs chmod -x

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