How do I make directory writable?

Question

How do I make a directory writable, from the Mac terminal?

Answer 1

chmod +w <directory>

Answer 2

chmod 777[directory]

This will give you execute/read/write privileges. You can play with the numbers to finely tune your desired permissions.

Here is the wiki with great examples.

Answer 3

• chmod +w <directory> or chmod a+w <directory> - Write permission for user, group and others

• chmod u+w <directory> - Write permission for user

• chmod g+w <directory> - Write permission for group

• chmod o+w <directory> - Write permission for others