redhat man page for access

ACCESS(1)						      General Commands Manual							 ACCESS(1)

NAME
       access - determine whether a file can be accessed

SYNOPSIS
       access -mode file

DESCRIPTION
       Exit  successfully  if file can be accessed with the specified mode.  mode is one or more letters of rwx, where r is for readable, w is for
       writable, and x is for executable.

       The difference between access 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
       access accepts the following additional options:

       --help Print help message and exit.

       --version
	      Print version information and exit.

SEE ALSO
       access(2)

Kpathsea 3.3.1							  4 January 1998							 ACCESS(1)