How to view the octal permissions of a file or folder in Linux

stat -c “%a %n”

From the manpage of stat:

-c —format=FORMAT use the specified FORMAT instead of the default; output a newline after each use of FORMAT %a Access rights in octal %n File name

[via http://askubuntu.com/questions/152001/how-can-i-get-octal-file-permissions-from-command-line]