If the permissions on a file were set so that everyone could read from or write to the file, how would that be represented symbolically

Question

If the permissions on a file were set so that everyone could read from or write to the file, how would that be represented symbolically (within the output of an 'ls -l' command)?

Answer 1

I don't know what you mean by "symbolically", but they are represented in various tools in various ways:

• rw-rw-rw-
• 666 or 0666
• a=rw

See man chmod for more information.