Since Ant 1.10.0.
Changes the file permissions using Java's NIO support for permissions.
This task provides a subset of the platform specific abilities of chmod and attrib in a platform independent way.
If no permissions are specified either via the mode or the permissions attribute, then all permissions will be removed from the nested resources.
The task accepts aribitrary resources as part of the nested resource collections, but not all resources support setting permissions. This task won't do anything for resources that don't support setting permissions - for example URLs.
The permissions are applied to all resources contained within the nested resources collections. You may want to ensure the collection only returns files or directories if you want different sets of permissions to apply to either type of resource.
| Attribute | Description | Required |
| permissions | The permissions to set as comma separated list of names of PosixFilePermission values. | No |
| mode | The permissions to set as tradional Unix three-digit octal number. | No |
| failonerror | Whether to stop the build if setting permissions fails. | No, defaults to true |
Resource Collections are used to select groups of resources.
<setpermissions mode="755">
<file file="${dist}/start.sh"/>
</setpermissions>
makes the "start.sh" file readable and executable for anyone and in addition writable by the owner.
<setpermissions permissions="OWNER_READ,OWNER_WRITE,OWNER_EXECUTE,OTHERS_READ,OTHERS_EXECUTE,GROUP_READ,GROUP_EXECUTE">
<file file="${dist}/start.sh"/>
</setpermissions>
makes the "start.sh" file readable and executable for anyone and in addition writable by the owner.