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Each file has a set of permissions that control the kinds of access that users have to that file. The permissions for a file are also called its access mode. They can be represented either in symbolic form or as an octal number.
| • Mode Structure | Structure of file permissions. | |
| • Symbolic Modes | Mnemonic permissions representation. | |
| • Numeric Modes | Permissions as octal numbers. |