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Development Tools Console Foundations Environment and Redirection Pipes and Redirection

Alvin Shern
Alvin Shern
3,421 Points
Posted by Alvin Shern
Alvin Shern
3,421 Points

I don't have permission to view hello.txt in these exercises.

I don't have permission to view hello.txt in these exercis

1 Answer

Danilo Rodrigues
Danilo Rodrigues
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Danilo Rodrigues
Danilo Rodrigues
22,594 Points

Try changing the permissions in this file with the command:

chmod 777 hello.txt

See more information in this video: https://teamtreehouse.com/library/console-foundations/users-and-permissions/file-permissions

Alvin Shern
Alvin Shern
3,421 Points
Alvin Shern
Alvin Shern
3,421 Points

Ah I realized the problem was that I didn't change the ownership and group of the hello.txt after changing it to another user as shown in the video tutorial. Thanks for commenting though : )