Re[2]: 'Inverse' chmod?

[Bob Bernstein <ruptured-duck@home.com>]

Carl Mummert <mummert@cs.wcu.edu> wrote:

>   perl -e 'printf "%#o", ((stat("FILENAME"))[2] & 0x1ff)'

Great! 

It works fine from the command line, but I tried it in a shell script with no
luck.

#! /bin/bash
perl -e 'printf "%#o", ((stat($1))[2] & 0x1ff)'

Needless to add I know as much about shell scripts as Hillary does about New
York.


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