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My original plan was to pipe "ls -l", get the permission string that represented the file in question. Translate the string of 'r's 'w's 'x's '-'s into 0s and 1s then convert it from binary to octal.

This seems really cumbersome and annoying and I gotta figure there is some faster way. Even getting a string representation of the octal value would be great. I'm working in C on a linux environment btw.

Ideas?

Thanks!

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man fstat. Study the st_mode field.

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sweet thanks

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