find: Symbolic Modes
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1 5.2 Symbolic Modes
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1 "Symbolic modes" represent changes to files' permissions as operations
1 on single-character symbols. They allow you to modify either all or
1 selected parts of files' permissions, optionally based on their previous
11 values, and perhaps on the current 'umask' as well (⇒Umask and
Protection).
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1 The format of symbolic modes is:
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1 [ugoa...][+-=]PERMS...[,...]
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1 where PERMS is either zero or more letters from the set 'rwxXst', or a
1 single letter from the set 'ugo'.
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1 The following sections describe the operators and other details of
1 symbolic modes.
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