Usage: chmod [OPTION]... MODE[,MODE]... FILE... or: chmod [OPTION]... OCTAL-MODE FILE... or: chmod [OPTION]... --reference=RFILE FILE... Change the mode of each FILE to MODE. -c, --changes like verbose but report only when a change is made --no-preserve-root do not treat `/' specially (the default) --preserve-root fail to operate recursively on `/' -f, --silent, --quiet suppress most error messages -v, --verbose output a diagnostic for every file processed --reference=RFILE use RFILE's mode instead of MODE values -R, --recursive change files and directories recursively --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit Each MODE is of the form `[ugoa]*([-+=]([rwxXst]*|[ugo]))+'.