Sorry, you're asking too many questions at the same time to be easily answered in one thread.

> My GUESS is that the "&" and ">>" are some sort of binary operators, ... I tried to google

First step, plz try to read the docs and tell us what remains unclear: perldoc perlop

(BTW: perlop is the second hit for perl binary operator )

> but can someone explain what "&07777" does

'&' is not a part of the word but a "binary and" operator. But I agree that the missing space doesn't improve readability.

> besides using a magic number

Do you know how file-permissions are managed in unix-like systems?

Literal octal numbers start with a 0 followed by octal digits. see perlnumber

see also oct for a discussion of your code.

Cheers Rolf

( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

In reply to Re: What does ">>" do? (And other stat questions) by LanX
in thread What does ">>" do? (And other stat questions) by three18ti

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