How do you add chmod +x permission to an AWS Elastic Beanstalk platform hook?

Question

Context

I am using Elastic Beanstalk to deploy a very simple test application. I have several packages I want to install using apt. I have included a

Answer 1

Make sure to make your file executable in git

chmod +x path/to/file
git update-index --chmod=+x path/to/file

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