# Chmod codes cheat sheet

### How to use chmod codes in unix:

1. There is three types of permisions in files and folders in unix
    1.1. Read (**r**)
    1.2. Write (**w**)
    1.3. Execute (**x**)
2. And, there is a clasificacion of users called UGO (explained bellow):
    2.1. **U** ~> User (usually, you)
    2.2. **G** ~> Group (eg sudo group)
    2.3 **O** ~> Others

When you run `$ ls -l` your output will be something like this:

```
-rwxrwxrwx@  1 user  staff  708301983 Aug 11 13:51 all.zip
-rw-r--r--   1 user  staff          0 Aug 22 22:10 chmodCheatSheet.md
-r--------@  1 user  admin       1692 Jul  6 10:13 deploykey.pem
drwxr-xr-x   3 user  staff        102 Aug 20 19:14 deploynode
```

### How to read this?

#### Take the first output:

| **U**        | **G**           | **O**  |
| ------------- |:-------------:| -----:|
| r w x| r w x | r w x |
|1 1 1 | 1 1 1 | 1 1 1|

So, user, group and others can read, write and excute the file or folder

#### Take the second output:

| **U**        | **G**           | **O**  |
| ------------- |:-------------:| -----:|
| r w -| r -- | r - x |
|1 1 0 | 1 0 0 | 1 0 1|

So, user can read and write, group and other only can read.

#### As you can see, we can play with these permisions

| **U**        | **G**           | **O**  |
| ------------- |:-------------:| -----:|
| r - x| r w - | - - - |
|1 0 1 | 1 1 0 | 0 0 0|
| - w x| r - x | - - x |
|0 1 1 | 1 0 1 | 0 0 1|

### Finally, the codes! (sorry)

| Bin        | Decimal           | Representation  |
| ------------- |:-------------:| -----:|
| 000      | 0 | - - - |
| 001      | 1 |   - - x |
| 010 | 2 |    - w - |
| 011 | 3 |    - w x |
| 100 | 4 |    r - - |
| 101 | 5 |    r - x |
| 110 | 6 |    r w - |
| 111 | 7 |    r w x |

* So, if I run `$ chmod 777 file` <=>
`rwx rwx rwx` everybody can do anything with this file or folder! 
* Or I run `$ chmod 744` <=>
`rwx r-- r--`only user can read, write and execute, group and others only read. 
* Or run `$ chmod 200` <=>
`-w- --- ---`only you can write this file or folder

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Refs:
1. http://www.pa.msu.edu/~abdo/unixcc.html
2. http://www.yourownlinux.com/2013/09/chmod-basics-of-filesdirectories.html