On a FreeBSD system, you can use the stat command to display the file permission mode (also known as the file mode or chmod value) for a file or directory.
To display the file permission mode for a file or directory, use the stat command followed by the name of the file or directory. For example:
# stat file.txt
This will display a summary of the file's or directory's attributes, including the file permission mode. The file permission mode is displayed in octal notation, which is a representation of the file's permission bits using base 8.
For example, the output of the stat command might look like this:
File: file.txt Size: 0 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 4096 regular empty file Device: 805h/2053d Inode: 786123 Links: 1 Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 100/ user) Gid: ( 10/ wheel) Access: 2022-12-20 12:34:56.000000000 -0500 Modify: 2022-12-20 12:34:56.000000000 -0500 Change: 2022-12-20 12:34:56.000000000 -0500 Birth: -
In this example, the file permission mode is 0644, which corresponds to rw-r--r-- in symbolic notation.
For more information about using the stat command, you can refer to the stat man page by running man stat on the command line.