{"id":27697,"date":"2024-03-16T09:03:11","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T09:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-check-file-permissions-in-centos\/"},"modified":"2024-03-22T11:39:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T11:39:53","slug":"how-to-check-file-permissions-in-centos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-check-file-permissions-in-centos\/","title":{"rendered":"How to check file permissions in CentOS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To check the permission of a file, you can use the command ls -l or ls -la.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>List the files in long format, displaying permissions, owner, group, file size, modification time, and other information.<\/li>\n<li>List all files, including hidden files.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>For example, to view the permissions of the file \/home\/user\/file.txt, you can run the following command:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code>ls -l \/home\/user\/file.txt\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>The output is similar to:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code>-rw-r--r-- 1 user group 1024 Apr 1 10:00 file.txt\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>This includes the file permissions shown as rw-r&#8211;r&#8211;, where user refers to the owner, group refers to the group the file belongs to, 1024 indicates the file size, Apr 1 10:00 indicates the last modification time, and file.txt is the file name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To check the permission of a file, you can use the command ls -l or ls -la. 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