Misc Linux Commands

misc.md

Get file permissions Linux

In octal

stat -c "%a %n" /path/to/folder/or/file

$ stat -c "%a %n" nginx.conf
644 nginx.conf

For the parent directories as well

namei -om /path/to/folder/or/file

$ namei -om /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
f: /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
 drwxr-xr-x root root /
 drwxr-xr-x root root etc
 drwxr-xr-x root root nginx
 -rw-r--r-- root root nginx.conf