How Do I See File Attributes in Linux?

How Do I See File Attributes in Linux?
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How do you check file attributes in Linux?

You can list the attribute of the contents of a particular directory with lsattr command followed with a file or directory name as the argument. As the ls -l command, the -d option with lsattr will list the attributes of the directory itself instead of the files in that directory.

How do you display file attributes in Unix?

To view the permissions for all files in a directory, use the ls command with the -la options. Add other options as desired; for help, see List the files in a directory in Unix. In the output example above, the first character in each line indicates whether the listed object is a file or a directory.

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