access

ACCESS(1)                                                            ACCESS(1)



NAME
       access - determine whether a file can be accessed

SYNOPSIS
       access -mode file

DESCRIPTION
       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.

OPTIONS
       access accepts the following additional options:

       --help Print help message and exit.

       --version
              Print version information and exit.

SEE ALSO
       access(2)



Kpathsea 3.4.5                  4 January 1998                       ACCESS(1)