ls -le

What is the -e switch supposedly doing?

This gives you simple user-group-world octal permissions on all files in the current directory if you restrain from learning ls switches ;-)

perl -e'printf("%03o $_\n",(stat("$_"))[2]&07777,$_)for glob"*"'

All that beauty in such a simple statement... *wanders off*

Cheers, Sören