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Old 06-08-2005, 12:32 PM   #1
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The rights


The following is the structure of the directories.

/home/ka/user2/letters/important

I am interested in learning the rights of the directory ' letters' . I only want to know, for example, the read, write and executable rights of that folder. I just want to do in one single command.

I am in the 'user2 ' directory

1] ls -l letters

2] ls -l | grep letters

Which is the correct command?
 
Old 06-08-2005, 12:48 PM   #2
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Well only 1 of those uses one command the other uses two.
 
Old 06-08-2005, 12:52 PM   #3
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I can't understand your answer. Could you elaborate on it?

Do you think both of them are fine? I don't think so.
 
Old 06-08-2005, 01:00 PM   #4
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Is this homework?

What David is trying to say is.. this is easy.. ls is a command and grep is its own command.. from what you provided and asked, I'm sure you can distinct which one truly and only uses one command to perform the same task..
 
Old 06-08-2005, 01:35 PM   #5
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Thanks trickykid and David.

I know that ' ls ' and ' grep ' are two diffferent commands.

1] ls -l letters --_> This command shows the rights of the documents in the 'letters' folder.


2] ls -l | grep letters --> This command direct the output of the ' ls -l ' in to the 'grep' command. I am not sure what is happening to that particular output.

There are documents inside the ' letters' folder. I just want to know which command shows the rights of those documents.

I am in the ' user2 ' folder.

By the way, I am not an expert on these things. I am learning here.
 
Old 06-08-2005, 01:44 PM   #6
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Have you tried ls -ld letters?
 
Old 06-08-2005, 01:44 PM   #7
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oh, i dont think u specific that before (to list CONTENTS of directory)
Code:
ls -l letters/
 
Old 06-08-2005, 02:02 PM   #8
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The ' ls -ld ' shows me the following. It is a directory. What does it mean? Is it the home directory?

I guess the rights ' r , w , x ' means that I have all the rights to manipulate that directory. What do you think?

[ka@c83-250-88-135 ka]$ ls -ld
drwxr-xr-x 49 ka ka 8192 Jun 8 20:49 ./
[ka@c83-250-88-135 ka]$
 
Old 06-08-2005, 02:14 PM   #9
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the ./ means your current directory.. didnt you want to list the contents of letters? i specified how to do that above.
what distro have you been using after 200+ posts here?

research the 'ls' command (here) or look up file permissions in google.

link 1)
link2++

Last edited by nadroj; 06-08-2005 at 02:27 PM.
 
Old 06-08-2005, 03:02 PM   #10
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Thanks nadroj. It was a useful link.

Please look at the following. The ' man ' command with s4 didn't work. Why is that?

It worked in the usual pattern ' man --cp '

[ka@c83-250-88-135 ka]$ man -s4 cp
No manual entry for cp
[ka@c83-250-88-135 ka]$ man --cp

man: unrecognized option `--cp'
man, version 1.5m

usage: man [-adfhktwW] [section] [-M path] [-P pager] [-S list]
[-m system] [-p string] name ...

a : find all matching entries
c : do not use cat file
d : print gobs of debugging information
D : as for -d, but also display the pages
 
Old 06-08-2005, 03:12 PM   #11
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i have no clue what your asking.. whats s4?
are you looking for the man page for copy/cp? just type 'man cp' then.. u cant pass options (ie --s4 whatever that is) to the man page program
 
Old 06-08-2005, 03:25 PM   #12
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Try "man 4 cp" and you will see a more detailed error. "man cp", "man 1 cp", and "man -s1 cp" will all work.
 
  


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