Re: I know, I know - Stupid Question:

["Chris K. Young" <cky@pobox.com>]

Quoted from PC Drew:
> yes and no.  For most purporses, chmod 0755 == chmod 755.  However,
> when you get into more sophisticated permissions (sticky bit, dirty
> bit, etc) that's when the leading 0 comes into play.  For instance,
> when you see something with the following permissions:
> 
> rwsr-xr-x
> 
> the permissions are "4755"

So? For chmod(1), 0755 == 755, for all (not just ``most'') purposes.

However, typing 0755 (and, in the case above, 04755) is good practice,
since the numbers are actually octal. When you write programs in C or
Perl that call chmod(2), say, it Really Matters (tm).

e.g., rwxr-xr-x == 0755 == 493

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