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 5.2 Symbolic Modes
 ==================
 
 "Symbolic modes" represent changes to files' permissions as operations
 on single-character symbols.  They allow you to modify either all or
 selected parts of files' permissions, optionally based on their previous
 values, and perhaps on the current 'umask' as well (⇒Umask and
 Protection).
 
    The format of symbolic modes is:
 
      [ugoa...][+-=]PERMS...[,...]
 
 where PERMS is either zero or more letters from the set 'rwxXst', or a
 single letter from the set 'ugo'.
 
    The following sections describe the operators and other details of
 symbolic modes.
 

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· Setting Permissions          Basic operations on permissions.
· Copying Permissions          Copying existing permissions.
· Changing Special Permissions Special permissions.
· Conditional Executability    Conditionally affecting executability.
· Multiple Changes             Making multiple changes.
· Umask and Protection              The effect of the umask.
 

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