[SOLVED] find out chmod of file or directory

ggalan · 01-09-2012, 10:06 AM

is it possible to find out what the chmod number is on a file or directory?

Code:

ls -l

gives me something like this

Code:

drwxr-xr-x

but would like numbers

thanks

Ian John Locke II · 01-09-2012, 10:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ggalan

is it possible to find out what the chmod number is on a file or directory?

Code:

ls -l

gives me something like this

Code:

drwxr-xr-x

but would like numbers

thanks

From

Code:

drwxr-xr-x

it's easy to figure out what the number is. Each

Code:

rwx

is an octet, i.e, those three letters can form a value of no more than 7 and no less than 0. If you know binary then you should know that 100 = 4, 010 = 2, and 001 = 1. Then just think of the following r = 4, w = 2, and x = 1. So for your example, the permissions in numeric form are

Code:

d755