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Old 02-09-2009
Displaying permissions

I can set permissions on a file with "chmod 777 filename" using octal for the permission levels. Is there a simple way to display the octals rather than the 'rwxrwxrwx' format?

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Old 02-09-2009
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stat -c %a myfile
 
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