> Is there a command that will do (so to speak) the inverse of chmod, i.e. if > given the name of a file return its current permissions in octal?
Seems like "ls -l" followed by a filter to extract just that information? If the output of ls changes it would also have to change, so I think this would be pretty version-specific. I ran into the same problems with filters to extract stuff from "ps" output (had problems with imap processes hanging around so I wanted a "killimap" command...) -- Charles B. (Ben) Cranston mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wam.umd.edu/~zben
