I dont understand the following question, if anybody can please explain with an example, you dont have to answer it! just an explanation with an example will do. thanks.

Write a script that takes a file as an argument. The script should be able to determine what permissions the owner, group and everybody has for the file passed in. The output should be displayed similar to this.

READ WRITE EXECUTE
OWNER FRED.SMITH YES YES NO
GROUP USERS YES NO NO
EVERYBODY NO NO NO

http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

i made this for another guy in another forum.
its crude but it does the job.
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ls -l "file" | awk 'BEGIN {
owner["r"] = "read";owner["w"] = "write";owner["x"]= "execute";owner["-"]="No"
group["r"] = "read";group["w"] = "write";group["x"]="execute";group["-"]="No"
every["r"] = "read";every["w"] = "write";every["x"]="execute";every["-"]="No"
printf "%-8s%-15s%-15s%-15s\n", "Field","READ" ,"WRITE","EXECUTE"
}
{ perm = $1; own=$3 }
END { FS=""; n = split(perm,permarray)
printf "%-8s",own
for (i=2;i<=4;i++) printf "%-15s" , owner[permarray[i]];
printf "\n%-8s" , "group"
for (i=5;i<=7;i++) printf "%-15s", group[permarray[i]];
printf "\n%-8s" , "All"
for (i=8;i<=10;i++) printf "%-15s", every[permarray[i]]; print ""
}'
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