How To Find File Permissions In Linux?
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To view file permissions in Linux, open a terminal window and type the following command:
ls -l
This command will list all files and directories in the current directory along with their associated permissions. The permissions are listed as a series of letters and numbers, with each character representing a different permission type.
The first character is always a letter, which indicates the type of file or directory. The following nine characters are either a hyphen or a letter and number. These nine characters represent the permissions for the file.
The first three characters represent the permissions for the file’s owner. The next three characters represent the permissions for the file’s group. And the last three characters represent the permissions for all other users.
For example, a file with permissions set to -rw-r–r– would mean that the file’s owner has read and write permissions, the group has read-only permissions, and all other users have read-only permissions.