FilePermissions. Understanding and Using File Permissions In Linux and Unix, everything is a file.
Directories are files, files are files and devices are files. Devices are usually referred to as a node; however, they are still files. All of the files on a system have permissions that allow or prevent others from viewing, modifying or executing. If the file is of type Directory then it restricts different actions than files and device nodes. pSeries and AIX Information Center. Rsync. 22 Jun 2014 rsync - a fast, versatile, remote (and local) file-copying tool Local: rsync [OPTION...]
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