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What can you do when you can’t chmod chmod?

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Sandra Henry-Stocker
Nov 10, 2015

What would you do if the chmod command on a system that you manage lost its execute permissions? Well, you wouldn’t exactly just chmod it back to its original state. So, what could you do? Here are some of the many ways that you could make chmod executable again.
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