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From: "Bradley Bell" <bradleyb@u.washington.edu>
To: <linux@u.washington.edu>
Subject: RE: extracting file permissions
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 18:56:58 -0700
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hmm, never used the stat command before...  why not just:

stat -c "%a" $1 | xargs printf '%04d\n'

-brad

> -----Original Message-----
> From: LINUX-owner@u.washington.edu
> [mailto:LINUX-owner@u.washington.edu]On Behalf Of
> jheiss+linux@ee.washington.edu
> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 5:08 PM
> To: UW Linux Group
> Subject: Re: extracting file permissions
> 
> 
> <UGLY HACK>
> stat -t /tmp | awk '{print "0x" $4}' | awk --non-decimal-data 
> '{printf "%o", $1}'
> </UGLY HACK>
> 
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 04:14:13PM -0700, Zanfur wrote:
> > 
> > I was wondering if anyone knew of a handy way (short of writing a
> > utility myself) that would extract the file permissions of a file on a
> > unix filesystem in numeric form?
> > 
> 
> 
.