Re: A question of permissions.

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From: RussM
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 00:00

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In article <8vs79h$704$1@thor.our.house>, Matt Foster
<matt@molnir.demon.co.uk> writes
>Shell scripts need read & execute to work.  After all, what happens
>is that ksh (or bash or whatever) starts up (#!/bin/ksh) and then
>attempts to read in the rest of the script as it's stdin.
>No read permission, so it blows.   Compiled executables don't
>suffer from this, but all scripted languages do.  755 or 750 or 700
>would be normal permissions for scripts.

Don't you just hate that.
The pure simple blindingly obvious taken for granted logical reason that
just never makes it past the tip of the tongue.

It's one of the things I like about *nix, if you sit down and look the
answer is usually starring back at you.
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