Unix command to view a single file/folder permission?

[SoundTheSurrender]

If I do ls -l it will read the whole directory, but how would I go about reading a single file and list it's permissions?

I tried ls -l file.txt but that didn't work.

 

[kamper]

Your second option there is correct. What about it didn't work?

Edit: omg my grammar is terrible

 

[Nothinman]

'ls -l <file>' works fine unless you're looking for ACLs or a directory, for a directory you have to tell ls that you want the directory itself and not the contents with 'ls -ld <directory>'. For ACLs you need to look at getfacl.