You have to convert the value to octal representation, e.g. 

my $perm = 33092;

printf "%o\n", $perm & 07777;   # prints 504

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Also, to set the permissions, you probably want $attrs->perm( 0777 ), not $attrs->perm( [ '0777' ] ). The square brackets in the docs mean optional, i.e. you'd specify nothing to retrieve the value (combined 'setter' and 'getter' method...).

Update: forgot to mention the '& 07777' above masks off the four octal groups of interest here, i.e. three times rwx (for user/group/other), plus the SUID/SGID/sticky octal group (the latter is the first (leftmost) one).

In reply to Re^3: setting file permissions through sftp by almut
in thread setting file permissions through sftp by gman

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