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If you have the camel book see page 801. If not, here is the code:

$mode = (stat($filename))[2];
printf "permissions are %04o\n", $mode &07777

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This will send back to you the usual UNIX-style permissions - once you have them - you can then interrogate them as you wish.

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Re^2: how to check permissions
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 16, 2018 at 07:07 UTC
    how to factor in the sticky bit while getting the permissions?
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      Did you try the code which brother draconis helpfully copied out for you? In what way are you unable to determine the sticky bit from that?

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