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This doesn't change the owner of the directory
To identify ownership and permissions of a directory:
ls -l /path/that/source/directory/is/in | grep directory
Then change the ownership of the new directory:
chown owner:group /target/directory
The permissions will appear as -rw-rw-rw or -rwx------ or something of that ilk
The first 'digit' will usually be -, but may be 4, 2 or 1 (depending on what has been configured - run a man on chmod for more details)
The next 3 sets of digits are the permissions for owner, group, and others (respectively).
To change the permissions of a directory, you will need to identify who needs
Understanding (r)ead (w)rite or e(x)ecute involves some math:
For:
I could probably use that method and then make a shell script out of it. However, I was wondering if there was an easier way to get the permissions in plain number format rather than using ls and doing the conversion.