KPSEACCESS(1)

💖 KPSEACCESS 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual glow-up of kpseaccess — literally the tiny little tool that answers one (1) question: can I touch this file or nah? 🔥

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🌸 NAME 🌸

kpseaccess — determine whether a file can be accessed 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

kpseaccess mode file

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So here's the vibe: kpseaccess exits successfully if file can be accessed with the mode you specified. That's it. That's the whole job. Iconic, honestly. 👑

The mode is an optional dash (-) followed by zero or more letters from rwx, where:

• r — for readable
• w — for writable
• x — for executable

yes bestie, zero or more — an empty letter list is valid, the dash is optional, we love a flexible queen 🎀

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💀 the plot twist: kpseaccess vs test

The difference between kpseaccess and test is that test looks at the permission bits, while kpseaccess checks using the access(2) system call. 🫶

and the way that matters?! it makes a difference when file systems have been mounted read-only. like, the bits might say one thing and the actual system call says another, and kpseaccess is the one asking the system directly. no cap. 😭

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🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

kpseaccess accepts the following options:

• --help — print help message and exit 🧚
• --version — print version information and exit ⭐

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🍓 SEE ALSO 🍓

• access(2)

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okay that's the whole page, you ate that 💖 the source of all this wisdom is Kpathsea 6.4.1, dated 1 March 2011 — yes she's an elder but she's still serving ✨ bye bestie, go check those files 💅🌸