I have removed the executable permission from /bin/chmod

How can I recover from this scenario?

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There are several methods. The easiest will probably be:

install -m a+x /bin/chmod .
./chmod

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You can use perl. see man 2 chmod.

perl -e 'chmod 0755, "/bin/chmod"'

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The simplest solution may be to boot using a live CD, mount the file system and change the permissions from there.

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