13.5. Modifying PermissionsThe Unix chmod command changes the permissions on a file or directory. Similarly, Perl has the chmod function to perform this task: chmod 0755, "fred", "barney"; As with many of the operating system interface functions, chmod returns the number of items successfully altered, and when used with a single argument, sets $! in a sensible way for error messages when it fails. The first parameter is the Unix permission value (even for non-Unix versions of Perl). For the same reasons we presented earlier in describing mkdir, this value is usually specified in octal. Symbolic permissions (like +x or go=u-w) accepted by the Unix chmod command are not valid for the chmod function.[296]
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