How to get permissons of a file/directory

If you want to see permissions of a file or a directory in both human readable and octal notation issue this command:

Linux:

stat -c "%n %a %A" /tmp # replace /tmp with your file/dir

The output is as follows:

/tmp 1777 drwxrwxrwt

Mac OS X:

stat -f "%N %A %Sp" /private/tmp # replace /private/tmp with your file/dir

The output is as follows:

/private/tmp 1777 drwxrwxrwt

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