Re: Listing Files - Permissions in Octal?
On Sunday 18 July 2004 02:35 pm, Thomas Adam wrote:
> --- ms419@freezone.co.uk wrote:
> > How can I generate a directory listing, including permissions
> > represented in octal, instead of "r", "w", & "x"?
>
> Use "stat" to piece it together:
>
> [n6tadam@station n6tadam]$ stat -c '%a %A %G %U %N' *
> 644 -rw-r--r-- n6tadam n6tadam `trymr'
> 644 -rw-r--r-- n6tadam n6tadam `trytrytry.wav'
Interesting. If somebody had shown me that a long time ago, I wouldn't be
having to keep up with my forked version of ls. :)
->ls -O /tmp/foo*
640 -rw-r----- 1 silvan silvan 6606 Jun 20 03:22 /tmp/foo.ps
Maybe I'll finally let it die. I'm really tired of keeping up with it, and
the idea just never caught anybody's eye.
--
Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <dmmcintyr@users.sourceforge.net>
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