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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