Well, a quick glance through my /etc directory here (fairly current-ish
i386 box) shows a dearth of sticky bits, setuid bits and setgid bits.

It also shows none of the SVR4-style "upper-case shadowing" letters.

I don't know what you stuff into /etc, but it must be some weird stuff.

Regards,
Alistair

On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 04:43:02AM -0800, Paul Goyette wrote:
> Well, if you want to do it that way, you'd better add all the variants
> with the set{g,u}id bits:  rws, rwS, -ws, -wS, r-s, r-S, --s, and --S.
> 
> Then, there's always the sticky bit to deal with on directories...
> 
> :)
> 
> On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Alistair Crooks wrote:
> 
> > It's not that drastic using awk: pipe the output from "ls -al" through:
> > 
> > awk '
> > BEGIN { n["rwx"]="7"; n["rw-"]="6"; n["r-x"]="5"; n["r--"]="4"; n["-wx"]="3"; n["-w-"]="2"; n["--x"]="1"; n["---"]="0"}
> > { print "0" n[substr($1,2,3)] n[substr($1,5,3)] n[substr($1,8,3)]}'
> >  
> > (This just proves that awk scripts can be made to look like modem noise too)
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Alistair
> > 
> 
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