File::stat question

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Hey everyone, I have a question about File::stat, in particular - mode. I am in the process of writing a script that checks the permissions of certain files and I would like to use File::stat->mode, but the output just doesn't seem to make sense -- I am writing this on an AIX machine v 4.3.3 Here's the code

$inetmode = stat("/etc/inetd.conf");
print $inetmode->mode & 0777;
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The output is 420, I was expecting 644 any suggestions?? TIA, Brett

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Re: File::stat question by merlyn (Sage) on Feb 13, 2002 at 20:09 UTC
`$inetmode = stat("/etc/inetd.conf"); printf "%o\n", $inetmode->mode & 0777;` [download] Octal, my son. Octal. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: File::stat question by liquidc00l (Novice) on Feb 13, 2002 at 20:59 UTC
Thanks that worked great, but.... I am almost embarrassed to ask this.....how do I write that value to a variable ... I am sure that this is very obvious but not to the newbie. TIA, Brett	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: File::stat question by merlyn (Sage) on Feb 13, 2002 at 21:16 UTC
`$foo = sprintf "%o", $stat->mode;` [download] -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker	[reply] [d/l]