[X-Unix] setting groups OSX Panther

Thomas W Noel tnoel at painless.org
Sat Jan 3 21:26:24 PST 2004


>Hello,
>
>
>I copied some files off a CD ROM to my HD and they showed up like :
>
>-rw-rw-rw-   1 davidgil  unknown  40653710 20 Dec 11:44 Audio 1_02.wav
>-rw-rw-rw-   1 davidgil  unknown   9124092 20 Dec 11:38 Audio 2_01.wav
>-rw-rw-rw-   1 davidgil  unknown  40653710 20 Dec 11:44 Audio 2_02.wav
>-rw-rw-rw-   1 davidgil  unknown   9124092 20 Dec 11:38 Audio 3_01.wav
>-rw-rw-rw-   1 davidgil  unknown  40653710 20 Dec 11:44 Audio 3_02.wav
>
>
>Now I can not rename them in the finder (for some unknown reason),
>and would like to also change the group settings to the example below:
>
>
>-rw-r--r--   1 davidgil  staff     4816445 15 Dec 23:22 DLS61aMac.sit
>
>I am guessing that this will solve the problem with renaming.
>
>How do I do this (I am in Panther using Bash shell)
>
>Thanks,
>
>Dave
  dadvidgil%    chgrp staff (filename)		see man chgp

davidgil%	  chmod 644 (filename)		see man chmod

Tom



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