0x01-shell_permissions

Shell, Permissions

Project done during Full Stack Software Engineering studies at Alx School. It aims to learn about man pages, permissions (owner, group and other) of files and directories in Shell.

Technologies

• Scripts written in Bash 5.1
• Tested on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Files

All of the following files are scripts:

Filename	Description
0-iam_betty	Switches the current user to betty
1-who_am_i	Prints the effective username of the current user
2-groups	Prints all the groups the current user is part of
3-new_owner	Changes the owner of the file hello to the user betty
4-empty	Creates an empty file called hello
5-execute	Adds execute permission to the owner of the file hello
6-multiple_permissions	Adds execute permission to the owner and the group owner, and reads permission to other users, to the file hello
7-everybody	Adds execution permission to the owner, the group owner and the other users, to the file hello
8-James_Bond	Write a script that sets the permission to the file hello to other users
9-John_Doe	Sets the -rwxr-x-wx permissions to the file hello
10-mirror_permissions	Sets the mode of the file hello the same as olleh's mode
11-directories_permissions	Adds execute permission to all subdirectories of the current directory for the owner, the group of the owner and all the other users
12-directory_permissions	Creates a directory called my_dir with permissions 751 in the working directory
13-change_group	Changes the group owner to school for the file hello
100-change_owner_and_group	Changes the owner to vincent and the group owner to staff for all the files and directories in the working directory
101-symbolic_link_permissions	Changes the owner and the group owner of the file _hello to vincent and staff respectively
102-if_only	Changes the owner of the file hello to betty only if it is owned by the user guillaume
103-Star_Wars	Plays the Star Wars IV episode in the terminal