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Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 06:23:22 +0300
From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: "Benjamin P. Grubin" <bgrubin@pobox.com>
Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: mergemaster(8) broken -- uses Perl
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On 2002-05-18 23:11, Benjamin P. Grubin wrote:
> Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> >
> > [ The above should print in stdout just 01777 as a number. ]
> > ...
> > Does anyone know of any other (possibly more elegant way) of
> > reading the numeric value of the permission bits for a file?
>
> Is [t]csh's `filetest` builtin viable here?

Ah, very good hint.  Unfortunately even with -P: I can't get the
`special' bits like sticky, etc. as I can see:

	$ /bin/tcsh -c 'filetest -P: /tmp'
	0777

and mergemaster.sh uses this as an argument to `install -m num' to set
the mode of installed files :-/

- Giorgos

[ That was a VERY good hint, BTW.  I didn't know about `filetest' and
it seems a rather useful feature of tcsh. ]

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