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Dev tools · January 30, 2019

unix-permissions

Swiss Army knife for Unix permissions

unix-permissions launched on January 30, 2019 with 6 votes, #1,243 of 2,587 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 7 years on.

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What it does

Unix file permissions can take many shapes: symbolic (ug+rw), octal (660) or a list of characters (drw-rw----). This library enables using any of these (instead of being limited to a single one) with any Node.js or CLI command.

Swiss Army knife for Unix permissions. Contribute to ehmicky/unix-permissions development by creating an account on GitHub.

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