Documentation for routine chmod assembled from the following pages:
Class: IO::Path §
From IO::Path
(IO::Path) method chmod §
Defined as:
method chmod(IO::Path: Int() --> Bool)Changes the POSIX permissions of a file or directory to $mode. Returns True on success; on failure, fails with X::IO::Chmod.
The mode is expected as an integer following the standard numeric notation, and is best written as an octal number:
'myfile'.IO.chmod(0o444); # make a file read-only 'somedir'.IO.chmod(0o777); # set 0777 permissions on a directory Make sure you don't accidentally pass the intended octal digits as a decimal number (or string containing a decimal number):
'myfile'.IO.chmod: '0444'; # BAD!!! (interpreted as mode 0o674) 'myfile'.IO.chmod: '0o444'; # OK (an octal in a string) 'myfile'.IO.chmod: 0o444; # Also OK (an octal literal) Language documentation: Independent routines §
From Independent routines
(Independent routines) sub chmod §
Defined as:
sub chmod(Int() , * --> List)Coerces all @filenames to IO::Path and calls IO::Path.chmod with $mode on them. Returns a List containing a subset of @filenames for which chmod was successfully executed.
chmod 0o755, <myfile1 myfile2>; # make two files executable by the owner