I have a file with permission -rwxr-xr-x in Ubuntu. How can I change it to -rw-rw-r--. I played with chmod settings, but was unable to get -rw-rw-r--.

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Either

chmod a-x,g+w file

or

chmod ug=rw,o=r file

or using octal representation

chmod 664 file

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