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chmod

chmodchange who may read, write or run a file. It is one of the commands you type in a terminal, and everything below is produced by running it: the output, the error you get when it goes wrong, and a terminal you can type it into yourself.

What it prints

Run against a small demo project — the same one you get in the terminal below, so the output is what you will see, not an illustration of it.

$ chmod +x script.sh
$ ./script.sh
hi

What it looks like when it goes wrong

The most common mistake with chmod, and the exact message you get. Recognising the wording is most of the fix.

$ chmod +x missing.sh
chmod: cannot access 'missing.sh': No such file or directory
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Try it yourself

Same files as above. Nothing here can break, and nothing leaves your browser.

Written by Mikhail Kuzmitskii