How to check permissions of a specific directory?

Question

I understand that using ls -l "directory/directory/filename" informs me of the permissions of the file. How can I do the same upon the directory?

I could do ls -l on the directory higher in this hierarchy and later just scroll till I found it but it's such one pain. If I use ls -l on the directory, it gives some permissions/information of the files inside of it, and not of the actual directory.

I tried this in one on my terminal of both the Mac OS X 10.5 and Linux (Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon), and it's giving me the same result. Is there any sort of flag I have to use?

Answer 1

Here is the short answer:

$ ls -ld directory

Here's what it does:

-d, --directory

list directory entries rather than the contents, and do not dereference symbolic links

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