From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 9 12:32:20 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAD3316A4CE for ; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 12:32:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A85843D1D for ; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 12:32:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) id i29KWFTJ042149; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 14:32:15 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 14:32:15 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Mark Message-ID: <20040309203215.GG95503@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200403092017.I29KGXFY027217@asarian-host.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200403092017.I29KGXFY027217@asarian-host.net> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Retrieving numeric filemode X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 20:32:20 -0000 In the last episode (Mar 09), Mark said: > Is there way (via find or ls, or something else), to retrieve the > numeric filemodes? For instance, if "ls -la" says "-r--r--r--", I > would like to get its numeric equivalent, 444. You can use "stat -r" to get the mode. It's the 3rd field. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com