On Mon Jul 06 2009 @ 3:31, Harry Putnam wrote:
> 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?
As John answered, there's more there than just the permissions. If you
check perldoc -f stat, there's a recipe for how to get what most people
usually want out of that field:
Because the mode contains both the file type and its
permissions, you should mask off the file type portion and
(s)printf using a "%o" if you want to see the real permissions.
$mode = (stat($filename))[2];
printf "Permissions are %04o\n", $mode & 07777;
Hope this helps, T
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