[Novalug] Need name of a command

[Dave Aronson]

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 12:06,  <cmhowe at patriot.net> wrote:

> I'm having a senior moment. What is the name of the command that changes
> permissions? I need to mv a file from one directory to another.

When you have these moments, try the -k flag on man, as in:

$ man -k permissions

If your keyword database has been properly constructed, that should
get you a list of the commands whose descriptions include the word
permissions.  That might spark an "oh, yeah, that's the one!" moment.

-Dave

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