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- From: bandy@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Mike Bandy)
- Subject: Re: Help with directories!
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.031742.12476@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu>
- Organization: Johns Hopkins University
- References: <1992Aug24.175614.15627@netnews.synoptics.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 03:17:42 GMT
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- ericd@synoptics.com (Eric Davis) writes:
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- >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.
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- >NOTE: I am looking just for the parser, I can shove data into it.
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- >Thanks
- >Eric
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- >P.S. If there is a way to do it with an existing utility, please let me know.
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- >In real life: Eric Davis
- >On the internet: ericd@synoptics.com
- >On the air: KD6HTO
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- >Invisible airwaves crackle with life.... -Rush
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- I've just read 18 messages regarding this question. And not one of them
- told us the answer (to which I'm curious or I wouldn't have wasted your
- precious time with this message)... Give us a break, and the answer to the
- question, and let's get on with our lives ...
-
- Mike Bandy
- Johns Hopkins University / Applied Physics Lab
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