[nycbug-talk] using stat

[George Georgalis]

On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 06:06:55PM -0400, George Georgalis wrote:
>Humm, BSD stat is quite a bit different than Linux.
>
>how do I make a colon "mode:uid:gid:file", ie
>stat $OPTIONS /etc/rc.conf
>644:0:0:/etc/rc.conf

Heh, case of reckless experimentation is faster than studying the man,
by a long shot!

set OPT="%Mp%Lp:%u:%g:%N"
stat -f $OPT /etc/rc.conf
0644:0:0:/etc/rc.conf

// George

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