On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) <b...@nedharvey.com>wrote:
> > If using "stat" you can also get the perms in 755 format. From here, I > can > > easily do a bitwise & with 2, and I can easily find the world write bit. > But bash > > arithmetic doesn't view the number "755" in octal... It operates > decimal. So I > > can't bitwise & with 16, or with 020. I have to strip off the last > character, and > > then bitwise 75 with & 2. So once again, given my previous comments > about > > leading and trailing spaces and stuff, plus, not knowing how to get the > nth > > character of a string, I'm not really sure there's a good solution here. > > My next best idea is to take the number 755, divide by 10 to get 75, and > then & 2 How about using Python? os.stat() will give you all the info you need: http://docs.python.org/2/library/stat.html gcm _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
