How to check permissions of a specific directory?

Question

I know that using ls -l \"directory/directory/filename\" tells me the permissions of a file. How do I do the same on a directory?

I could obviously use

Answer 1

In GNU/Linux, try to use ls, namei, getfacl, stat.

For Dir

[flying@lempstacker ~]$ ls -ldh /tmp
drwxrwxrwt. 23 root root 4.0K Nov  8 15:41 /tmp
[flying@lempstacker ~]$ namei -l /tmp
f: /tmp
dr-xr-xr-x root root /
drwxrwxrwt root root tmp
[flying@lempstacker ~]$ getfacl /tmp
getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
# file: tmp
# owner: root
# group: root
# flags: --t
user::rwx
group::rwx
other::rwx

[flying@lempstacker ~]$ 

or

[flying@lempstacker ~]$ stat -c "%a" /tmp
1777
[flying@lempstacker ~]$ stat -c "%n %a" /tmp
/tmp 1777
[flying@lempstacker ~]$ stat -c "%A" /tmp
drwxrwxrwt
[flying@lempstacker ~]$ stat -c "%n %A" /tmp
/tmp drwxrwxrwt
[flying@lempstacker ~]$

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For file

[flying@lempstacker ~]$ ls -lh /tmp/anaconda.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov  8 08:31 /tmp/anaconda.log
[flying@lempstacker ~]$ namei -l /tmp/anaconda.log
f: /tmp/anaconda.log
dr-xr-xr-x root root /
drwxrwxrwt root root tmp
-rw-r--r-- root root anaconda.log
[flying@lempstacker ~]$ getfacl /tmp/anaconda.log
getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
# file: tmp/anaconda.log
# owner: root
# group: root
user::rw-
group::r--
other::r--

[flying@lempstacker ~]$

or

[flying@lempstacker ~]$ stat -c "%a" /tmp/anaconda.log
644
[flying@lempstacker ~]$ stat -c "%n %a" /tmp/anaconda.log
/tmp/anaconda.log 644
[flying@lempstacker ~]$ stat -c "%A" /tmp/anaconda.log
-rw-r--r--
[flying@lempstacker ~]$ stat -c "%n %A" /tmp/anaconda.log
/tmp/anaconda.log -rw-r--r--
[flying@lempstacker ~]$