Viewing the content of files and examining access permissions and such are very different options. This post examines a number of ways to look at files on Linux. There are a number of ways to view ...

The Linux operating system and all its variant distributions inherit a strict ownership model from Unix systems. This means that users must have specific permissions in order to manipulate particular ...

Is there a way to make a file "append only"? I've lost some logfiles that got overwritten when I wanted them just to be appended. I know with NTFS there are detailed permissions that can be set, but ...

One way to get a little more clarity on this is to look at the permissions with the stat command. The fourth line of stat’s output displays the file permissions both in octal and string format: $ stat ...