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chmod +i .htoprc?

• reitanqild 6y ago
  For the benefit of someone like me who only uses Linux and bash on behalf of myself and the companies I work for and haven't studied it extensively, can anyone here tell me what the i is for? I wasn't able to find it in man chmod on my machine, DDG failed me, as did Google. (positive feedback to employees of DDG and Google: whenever I get assigned to the experiment where you show the snippet you thing matches my query it brightens my day, - even if the snippet shows that the result was irrelevant like here "<something about> chmod. I <something about the author>". I think Google used to nail this back in 2007 but anyways, seing the snippet in the front page helps a lot.)
  • teddyh 6y ago
    Immutable. The reason you couldn’t find it in chmod(1) is because it’s the wrong command. The correct command (and manual page) is chattr(1).
    • voltagex_ 6y ago
      Oops! Thank you.
• simias 6y ago
  `chmod 440 ~/.config/htop/htoprc` did the trick for me. Still an unnecessary annoyance but I'll live.
• voltagex_ 6y ago
  just replying to myself as I got it wrong, it's chattr +i, not chmod. Sorry! (and thanks to the response below correcting me)