On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 07:45 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 07:23 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > i once knew this, really. what's the explanation of that recent > > > > introduction of an extra period after the normal mode bits in the > > > > output from "ls -l"? > > > > > > Let me google that for you: > > > > > > http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ls+dot+permissions > > > > a followup question would be, is there an ls option that would > > *prevent* that security setting character from being printed? i > > ask since i'm working with a software project (openembedded) that > > specifically takes a mode setting in symbolic mode (from the > > output of "ls -l"), and uses sed to translate it to numeric mode, > > and the script to do that doesn't take into account that potential > > trailing period and promptly converts, say, "-rwxr-xr-x." to the > > string "755.", which then causes the subsequent call to install to > > crash with a bad numeric mode argument. > > Not that I know of. The "What information is listed" node of the ls > info pages describes the characters used to indicate alternate > access methods when listing files with '-l' but does not mention a > way to suppress this. that's ok, it was only an issue because of the incredibly hacky way that a numeric mode was being reproduced from an existing file -- by grabbing the current symbolic mode, then running it through sed to get the numeric mode back. yuck. as someone noted here earlier, using "stat" is way simpler. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ======================================================================== -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
