Re: Octal file permissions in ls (original) (raw)

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From: Pádraig Brady
Subject: Re: Octal file permissions in ls
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:30:57 +0000
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On 03/18/2013 04:43 PM, Sakse Dalum wrote:

Hi there,

I recently found myself wanting ls to show file permissions in octal format, so I decided to implement the feature. Being somewhat unfamiliar with C coding and C coding standards in particular, I've hunched my way through the implementation method, but seeing that it's only a few lines of code, it shouldn't break anything as far as I can see.

Anywho, I've attached a diff to this mail, which may or may not be applicable to the most recent version (I just did an apt-get source in Trisquel 6.0 to get the source for coreutils).

Thanks for the patch. It's a close call as to whether this is needed, but the current consensus is that it isn't needed.

There was a previous discussion that stat -c %a suffices: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2011-04/msg00036.html

Also one can use find(1) to output octal permissions: find -printf "%m %p\n

thanks, Pádraig.