September 2009
Beginner
942 pages
85h 34m
English
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Name
access
Synopsis
access [mode] [filename]
Check whether a file is available for the action specified with the mode argument: r for read, w for write, x for execute. Used mostly in scripting, access works better than test because it uses a direct system call rather than looking at the file permissions, which can be misleading when a filesystem is mounted read-only.
Options
- --help
Display help message, then quit.
- --version
Display version, then quit.