Make file executable

KodeKloud Engineer
#1

I am doing the 9th task for linux in engineer kodekloud. It asks to make a file executable for all users. I am implementing the following code:

sudo chmod a+x /tmp/xfusioncorp.sh

when I submit, it says the file is not executable.

#2

You need read permissions as well to be able to execute a shell script.

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#4

Thanks … it worked! But why do I need to give it a read permission?

#5

It is because the shell (like bash or sh) needs to read the script’s contents in order to execute them.

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