Linux read file permissions
 

Hi,
Is there a Linux command, or a series of commands, which will allow me to get the permissions of a file in "0644" format?


Thanks,
Adrien

look at the man pages

While your response has a remote relationship to my inquiry it
doesn't really cover my question at all.
The correct command is:

At first, insulting members is not allowed on this forum, and I would consider that bad manner if someone tries to help you.

Second, you asked how to change the permissions on a file, and that is exactly what the command chmod is for.

So you should better learn to ask smart questions, maybe you will get the answers you want.

Reported.

Indeed. That could have been worded in a more constructive way;
see my edited version above as a guideline.



Cheers,
Tink

No, I think that this clearly asks to get the file permissions. Please indicate where it asks to change them?

The command

Unintentional double post

That *won't* give him the octal permissions; he already
found a solution, using 'stat'.

By the way .... your
doesn't yield QUITE what I believe to be your desired output. It will
prepend ANY permission string w/ a 0, so if the file in question, e.g.
were a setgid directory, your version would print:

I think what you really want is:


Cheers,
Tink


P.S.: Note how I didn't call you useless? ;}