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access - determine whether a file can be accessed
access
-mode file
Exit successfully if file can be accessed with the
specified mode. mode is one or more letters of rwx, where r is for readable,
w is for writable, and x is for executable.
The difference between access
and test is that the latter looks at the permission bits, while the former
checks using the access(2)
system call. This makes a difference when file
systems have been mounted read-only.
access accepts the following
additional options:
- --help
- Print help message and exit.
- --version
- Print version
information and exit.
access(2)
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