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Kristopher Ives
Asked: 2010-06-24 15:31:52 +0800 CST

How can I see the permissions of a directory with `ls`?

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I want to see similar output like:

ls -l /etc/php5/php.ini

Which would give me:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40344 Jun 14 14:33 /etc/php5/php.ini

Except the file in question is a directory, and doing ls -l on it would list it's contents.

How can I have it give me that permissions/info for a directory, or is there a better way?

linux directory

4 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Use ls -ld for directories. Quoting from the man page:

    -d, --directory
    list directory entries instead of contents, and do not dereference symbolic links

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  2. Use stat dirname - just to be different!

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  3. Use the -d option:

    ls -ld dirname
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  4. use the d flag

    ls -ld directory_name
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