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# 1  
Old 04-12-2006
File permissions
Is there any way that I can use the ls command to view the permissions that a group has on a file.

I know ls -l file1 will list all the permissions for file1.
Would I have to use the following command: ls -l file1
Then grep or sed the output to retrieve what permissions the group has.
# 2  
Old 04-12-2006
Got it

ls -l file1 | cut -c 4-6


Is there a more efficient way?
# 3  
Old 04-12-2006
Not really. You can write a short shell script and then alias the script - if by "efficient" you meant a simpler user interface.
# 4  
Old 04-12-2006
How do I assign the results to a variable.

I have tried the following but it doesnt work

TMP= ls -l file1 | cut -c 4-6


This just seems to output the file permissions to the screen, whereas I want the result stored to TMP so that I can perform an If statement on it.
# 5  
Old 04-12-2006
*Note the backticks I inserted.

Code:
TMP=`ls -l file1 | cut -c 4-6`

# 6  
Old 04-12-2006
It worked thank you.
 
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