Re: get file mode

[email protected] (Bob Proulx)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.fileutils.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
Zanette Arrigo <[email protected]> [2002-11-25 16:14:15 +0100]:

> There is a way to get the file mode (octal or text)?

Sounds like you are looking for:

  ls -ld file | awk '{print$1}'

Putting it into a variable.

  filemode=$(ls -ld file | awk '{print$1}')

Bob
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