Hi!
What is the terminal command to set an file to -x flag? (- execute)
See picture @ Execute:
When I run
sudo chmod -x "file-name" then it removed the "-" or "+" flag
on a file but which command can I restore the "-" flag on Execute - Allow executing file as program?
do you mean, sudo chmod +x file
no, that makes the file executable. (+ flag)
sudo chmod -x file makes it unexecutable. (no flag)
see here:
I need the command to set a file to - flag on the option
"Execute: Allow executing file as program"
see here:
In my system, I do not see a "-" flag
the checkbox is either blank (no exec permission)
or
the checkbox is green with a white checkmark (exec permission)
caja 1.24.0
hmm, very very strange.
I believe that the "-" appears for folders, indicating that files in the folder can be executable or not. Folders themselves are not executable. A file should have the field in the GUI either checked or not.
Remember permissions have 3 groups (owner-group-everyone I think they are). The chmod +x and -x sets and resets this x permission in all 3 of these groups.
Now take a typical file with 664 permissions rw-rw-r-- and change it to mixed execute:
chmod 674 file
...and Caja will describe this mixed condition best it can - with that "-". So the context of "-" being "not set" is not what it means.
Did this make sense?
For me, I need this, it's:
chmod 754 file
see here:
