I just wrote a simular but far less elegent version of this yesterday because I didn't find this first.

However when I tested this against my test cases I did find some edge cases where it fails.

This file:
-rwS--S--- 2 will will 0 Jun 5 11:37 foo.bar
Should be mode 6600, but this code returns 0600.
This one:
-rwS--S--T 1 will will 0 Jun 5 11:37 foo.7600
Should be 7600, but this code returns 1600

I'm not sure I've every seen files with these permissions in the wild, but still..

Nice code though.

In reply to Re: 'ls' with octal permissions by owill
in thread 'ls' with octal permissions by oko1

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