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I started using dotfiles to sync everything I need to github. But I got some problem when symblink config files from dotfiles/ to ~/

Examples:

$ rm ~/.config/termite/config
$ ln -s ~/dotfiles/termite/config - > ~/.config/termite/config


$ ll ~/dotfiles/termite

total 4.0K
-rw-r--r-- 1 hieuc users 1.9K Nov 18 15:19 config

It won't let me edit, and it cannot be read by termite

~/.config/termite/config [Permission Denied]

Does anyone know how to fix it?

The file is readable by everyone as is denoted by the r bit for user, group, and others.

Your file is not executable as is denoted by the lack of x for everyone. That is what is giving you the [Permission Denied] error.

Make the file executable with this:

chmod +x ~/.config/termite/config

That will add execute permissions and the output off ll ~/.config/termite/config will look like this:

-rw-r-xr-x 1 hieuc users 1.9K Nov 18 15:19 config

You will then be able to execute the file with no issues either with this command:

~/.config/termite/config

Or by cd'ing into the directory that contains the file and then executing it:

cd ~/.config/termite/config

./config