permission question

[carbon]

what exactly are the difference between
r--
r-x
--x

second one it's pretty clear, but first and third one confuses me
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Carbon

[chardros]

The chmod manpage is a good place for an explanation of this stuff. Just type "man chmod" at your local friendly bash prompt.

r-- == read-only

r-x == read and execute permissions (if it's a directory, x grants the ability to change to that directory)

--x == execute only, like I can change to a directory but not list it's contents, or execute a shell script but not cat it.

[scriptkiddie]

yeah, you might want to learn that early on in your linx travels or you'll be in a world of crap later