Thanks to all ... Now I'm curious about something else: Is the mode in a stat(file) readout something still different than octal or decimal?
I see `33261' show up in the `mode' slot on a file with 755 permissions (from perldoc -f stat: [...] ($dev,$ino,$mode,$nlink,$uid,$gid,$rdev,$size, $atime,$mtime,$ctime,$blksize,$blocks) = stat($filename); [...] ls -l file -rwxr-xr-x 1 reader staff 510 2009-07-06 15:25 file My homemade script `mystat' prints out the various values: ./mystat file file: dev = 47776050 ino = 88208 mode = 33261 nlink = 1 uid = 1000 gid = 10 rdev = 4294967295 size = 510 atime = 1246912030 mtime = 1246911903 ctime = 1246911903 blksize = 512 blocks = 2 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/