12.6. Changing File or Directory Permissions: The Chmod Factory
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12.6. Changing File or Directory Permissions: The Chmod Factory

To change permissions on a file or directory, use the Chmod factory. The permission argument uses POSIX-style permission bits and should typically be expressed as an octal, not decimal, number: 

Command("file.out", "file.in",
        [
          Copy("$TARGET", "$SOURCE"),
          Chmod("$TARGET", 0o755),
        ])

Which executes: 

% scons -Q
Copy("file.out", "file.in")
Chmod("file.out", 0755)
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