Just in case you wondered how you might go about doing this yourself without using a module: 

sub mode_to_string
{
   my ($mode) = @_;
                                                                      
+          
   my @str_mode;
                                                                      
+          
   for (0 .. 2)
   {
      unshift @str_mode, $mode & 1 ? 'x':'-';
      unshift @str_mode, $mode & 2 ? 'w':'-';
      unshift @str_mode, $mode & 4 ? 'r':'-';
      $mode = $mode >> 3;
   }
                                                                      
+          
   return join '', @str_mode;
}
                                                                      
+          
print mode_to_string(0647);

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Of course you are almost certainly better off using the module as it will handle the setuid, setgid and sticky bits properly, but this is by way of example how things are often not as tricky as they seem.

/J\

In reply to Re: Turning 0755 into rwxr-xr-x by gellyfish
in thread Turning 0755 into rwxr-xr-x by saintmike

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