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Re: Setting permission from an applescript

Subject: Re: Setting permission from an applescript
From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 09:21:02 -0700

On Apr 14, 2005, at 9:37 PM, Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote:

On 15/04/2005, at 1:49 PM, Todd Geist wrote:
So does anyone have an Applescript that can set execute privs on a file?
do shell script "chmod 755 ~/desktop/test"


A better way to do this would be

    do shell script "chmod +x ~/desktop/test"

man chmod for details, but the basic point is to not touch more permission bits than you need to.


--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering

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