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ACCESS(1)              DragonFly General Commands Manual             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 3.2                    4 January 1998                       ACCESS(1)