On 03/18/2013 04:43 PM, Sakse Dalum wrote: > Hi there, > > I recently found myself wanting ls to show file permissions in octal format, > so > I decided to implement the feature. Being somewhat unfamiliar with C coding > and > C coding standards in particular, I've hunched my way through the > implementation > method, but seeing that it's only a few lines of code, it shouldn't break > anything as far as I can see. > > Anywho, I've attached a diff to this mail, which may or may not be applicable > to > the most recent version (I just did an apt-get source in Trisquel 6.0 to get > the > source for coreutils).
Thanks for the patch. It's a close call as to whether this is needed, but the current consensus is that it isn't needed. There was a previous discussion that `stat -c %a` suffices: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2011-04/msg00036.html Also one can use find(1) to output octal permissions: find -printf "%m %p\n thanks, Pádraig.
