what does "execute" permission do?

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Published on 2010-03-09T00:09:19Z Indexed on 2010/03/09 0:21 UTC
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Hi,

I am shocked that I still don't understand "Execute" permission in linux. There are three permission - read, write, and execute. I understand that read and write literally, but what does execute do exactly? Let's say I have example.php with execute permission. What can I do with example.php???

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