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Why do we need execution permission to change a directory in Unix?

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Mar 15, 20262684 views
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Problem

Here are the permissions given on the machine: Now here is the Problem: But this one works: Why do we need execution permission to do a reach that directory ? Wont read-write permissions suffice? An command on would work.

Error Output

drwxrwxrwx   4 root     root         512 May 16 09:32 STC_10
drwxrw-rw-   4 root     root         512 May  5 11:22 STC_11

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Fix for: Why do we need execution permission to change a directory in Unix?

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For the following demonstration, I created a few directories: Read permissions are sufficient to list the contents of the directory: can't find details about the file, but it can tell you the name of the file. But read-only access doesn't let you tr…

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