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For the benefit of someone like me who only uses Linux and bash on behalf of myself and the companies I work for and haven't studied it extensively, can anyone here tell me what the i is for?

I wasn't able to find it in man chmod on my machine, DDG failed me, as did Google.

(positive feedback to employees of DDG and Google: whenever I get assigned to the experiment where you show the snippet you thing matches my query it brightens my day, - even if the snippet shows that the result was irrelevant like here "<something about> chmod. I <something about the author>". I think Google used to nail this back in 2007 but anyways, seing the snippet in the front page helps a lot.)




Immutable. The reason you couldn’t find it in chmod(1) is because it’s the wrong command. The correct command (and manual page) is chattr(1).


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