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- From: digdon@ug.cs.dal.ca (Mike Digdon)
- Subject: Re: Help with directories!
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- Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
- References: <1992Aug24.195943.2766@prl.dec.com> <ASH.92Aug25094554@ulysses.mr.ams.com> <1992Aug25.142330.13023@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 15:55:17 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug25.142330.13023@news.eng.convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
- >From the keyboard of ash@ulysses.mr.ams.com (Alan Harder):
- >:In article <1992Aug24.195943.2766@prl.dec.com> boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts) writes:
- >:>> I am looking for a sh routine to return a numerical value for a file/directory.
- >:>> i.e. the files permissions are -rwxr-xr-x it would return a 755.
- >:
- >:> So for just how many minutes have you been reading this group for?
- >:
- >:This seems like a legitimate question for comp.unix.shell. If the
- >:question bothers you, don't answer it. Otherwise, let's not
- >:discourage people from asking questions on this group. After all,
- >:it's comp.unix.shell, not comp.unix.shell.wizards.
- >
- >But we discussed it ad nauseum just five days ago!!
- >
- >--tom
- >--
- > Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist
- >
- > "* Unix is a footnote of AT&T Bell Laboratories."
- > --Barry Shein
-
- However, some systems don't have the space to keep reems of messages on the
- system, and he may have first decided to read this group right after the "old"
- ones were purged.. I know this is the case with some of the newsgroups here
- at Dal..
-
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- digdon@ug.cs.dal.ca -- Halifax, NS
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