Unix Tip: Displaying File Attributes with the Perl stat Command
A lot of information is available about individual files on a Unix system. For example, the ls -l command will display the permissions matrix and ls -i will display a file's inode. But, if we want to list all three of the file's dates (atime, ctime and mtime) or retrieve one of the attributes in a script, one of the versatile tools is a command included in Perl -- the stat command.
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dude, isn't it 0777 (not 07777) like everywhere? :)printf "Permissions are %04o\n", $attrs[2] & 0777;