kpseaccess - determine whether a file can be accessed

NAME  SYNOPSIS  DESCRIPTION  OPTIONS  SEE ALSO 

NAME

kpseaccess − determine whether a file can be accessed

SYNOPSIS

kpseaccess mode file

DESCRIPTION

Exit successfully if file can be accessed with the specified mode. The mode is an optional dash (‘’) followed by zero or more letters of rwx, where r is for readable, w is for writable, and x is for executable.

The difference between kpseaccess 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

kpseaccess accepts the following options:

--help

Print help message and exit.

--version

Print version information and exit.

SEE ALSO

access(2)


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