How To Check The Permissions Of a Directory In Linux?
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To check the permissions of a directory in Linux, you can use the command line utility “ls” with the “-l” option. This will list the permissions of the directory, as well as the owner and group of the directory. For example, to check the permissions of the directory “/home/user/example”:
$ ls -l /home/user/example
This will output something similar to this:
drwxr-xr-x 2 user group 4096 Jul 14 14:21 example
The first column of the output displays the permissions. In this case, the output is “drwxr-xr-x”, which means that the directory has read, write, and execute permissions for the owner (the “d” at the beginning of the permission string indicates that it is a directory), read and execute permissions for the group, and read and execute permissions for everyone else.