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idkwhatimdoing1.0
June 20th, 2018, 04:12 PM
Hey, I'm quite new with Ubuntu and I was wondering if anyone had any programs they personally think are useful or good in ANY situations? I prefer to code with my laptop on Ubuntu and I have installed already NetBeans, Geany and CodeBlocks... And I kinda just discovered how to download things with chmod, so I was wondering if anyone thought about any things they like? Whether its secure or not its ok, I dont have anything personall that I keep on my coding laptop... Thank you
deadflowr
June 20th, 2018, 04:22 PM
And I kinda just discovered how to download things with chmod,
New to me.
chmod is for changing permissions for files/folders.
People use it post-download to reset erred permission settings.
But I've never seen or heard it used to download anything before.
How does that work?
idkwhatimdoing1.0
June 20th, 2018, 04:39 PM
sofar Ive used it for two downloads. I used it first with katoolin but now you can just do it from the terminal. What I used it for now is for NetBeans. So I went on the NetBeans webpage and I did the download button and it downloaded a script with the file name finishing a .sh so after that I went into my files > downloads > and clicked open in new terminal. The from there I wrote chmod+x <and the name of the file> then just pressed ./<name of file> and it ran the setup wizard. So two steps in total and always the same commands... chmod +x <name of file> and then ./<name of file>.
QIII
June 20th, 2018, 05:20 PM
You are not downloading with chmod. You are downloading a script and then making it executable with chmod.
The script may then download further files when you run it.
It may be instructional to consult
man chmod
Some excerpts here:
This manual page documents the GNU version of chmod. chmod changes the file mode bits of each given file according to mode, which can be either a symbolic representation of changes to make, or an octal number representing the bit pattern for the new mode bits.
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read (r), write (w), execute (or search for directories) (x)
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