View a File's Permission in ther Terminal

darkarcon2015 · 09-25-2005, 12:31 PM

Is there a command that will show me a file's permissions while in the terminal? I thought that there might be an attribute under the `chmod' command, but I didn't see any. Thanks for any help.

dcdbutler · 09-25-2005, 12:45 PM

Code:

$ ls -ld

Think that should do it

david1941 · 09-25-2005, 12:49 PM

I use: ls -l [filename] to see the permissions. output looks like this:

[drf@maplepark drf]$ ls -l waiver.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 drf drf 2988 Sep 6 17:12 waiver.txt
[drf@maplepark drf]$

showing owner read and write; group read and write; and other read.

dcdbutler · 09-25-2005, 12:55 PM

david 1941 is correct. The "d" is unnecessary unless you wish to view the permissions for a directory instead of a file, but you can still view the file permissions ok using "ls -ld <file>"