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# 1  
Old 10-26-2010
Print permissions for a file in output
hi
i m trying to print the permissions for a file in output

Code:
echo name
read name
touch  name.txt
permission=$((ls -l $name.txt))
echo permission



please suggest where i went wrong?
# 2  
Old 10-26-2010
Code:
echo name
read name
touch "$name.txt"
permissionandotherstuff=$(ls -ld "$name.txt")
echo ${permissionandotherstuff%% *}

# 3  
Old 10-26-2010
Thanku its worked fine Smilie
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