Question

Permissions of a file are represented by which of the following characters?

(a) r,w,x

(b) e,w,x

(c) x,w,e

(d) e,x,w

I had been asked this question in unit test.

Asked question is from File Ownership and Permissions in section Basic File Attributes of Unix

Answer 1

The correct option is (a) r,w,x

For explanation: A file can have three types of permissions; read, write and execute which is represented by characters r, w and x respectively.