Re: converting stat() $mode to unix file permissions

printf '%o', (stat $filename)[2] & 07777; # Updated: Thanks to [duff]

$unixmode = (stat $filename)[2] & 07777; # Updated. One too few 7s.
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Re: Re: converting stat() $mode to unix file permissions by duff (Parson) on Jan 25, 2004 at 17:00 UTC
I think perhaps he'd want to use a bit mask of `07777` instead of `0777` so that he could get the set*id bits. In fact, I think there's even an example in perldoc -f stat that shows exactly this. duff	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: converting stat() $mode to unix file permissions by knowmad (Monk) on Mar 30, 2004 at 19:14 UTC
Note that in the example, the $unixmode will come out in decimal mode. You may therefore prefer to use the following code to convert the output to the more common octal format: `$unixmode = sprintf("04%o", (stat $filename)[2] & 07777)`	[reply] [d/l]