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What does the "execute" permission do?

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Mar 15, 202646861 views

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I am shocked that I still don't understand "Execute" permission in Linux. There are three permission - read, write, and execute. I understand that read and write literally, but what does execute do exactly? Let's say I have with execute permission. What can I do with ?

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Basically it means you can tell the operating system to run the code in the file. For example, if the file was a binary executable, read access would allow you to view it, write access would allow you to modify it, but without execute permissions yo…

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