Re: geting some file stat

[George Georgalis <george%galis.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 11:32:27AM -0800, Jan Schaumann wrote:
>George Georgalis <george%galis.org@localhost> wrote:
>> I'm having difficulty determining a fast way to get the
>> mode/UID/GID of a *large* number of files... I'm trying
>> to use stat, but the numeric values that I could record
>> for later input to chmod/chown commands are not easy to
>> come by. Best method I see is to grep out stat -x output
>> but I was wondering if there is a way to use -f or some
>> other means?
>
>stat -f "%u %g %p" filename

Perfect. I must have been confused by all the details in
the man page, also no "uid" or "gid" strings to search
for.

So, what is the most efficient way to get the 4 least
significant bytes of "%p" (for input to chmod)?

// George


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