KPSEACCESS(1) General Commands Manual KPSEACCESS(1) NAME kpseaccess - determine whether a file can be accessed SYNOPSIS kpseaccess mode file DESCRIPTION Exit successfully if file can be accessed with the specified mode. The mode is an optional dash (`-') followed by zero or more letters of rwx, where r is for readable, w is for writable, and x is for executable. The difference between kpseaccess 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 kpseaccess accepts the following options: --help Print help message and exit. --version Print version information and exit. SEE ALSO access(2) Kpathsea 6.3.5 1 March 2011 KPSEACCESS(1)