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Java i have no understanding of how to write an array or use one, please help!

im in a basic unix class and our professor speaks broken engliash so i can never understand what exactly we are doing in class and i have no prior experience with unix. we were given an assignment to make 2 files. one to Input 10 numbers and print out the biggest number, and one to Write a script that can check your permission (read/write/execution) on the input filename as the argument. if anyone could help me do this and help me understand what exactly i am doing it would be appreciated. thanks
 

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