> If using "stat" you can also get the perms in 755 format. From here, I can > easily do a bitwise & with 2, and I can easily find the world write bit. But > bash > arithmetic doesn't view the number "755" in octal... It operates decimal. > So I > can't bitwise & with 16, or with 020. I have to strip off the last > character, and > then bitwise 75 with & 2. So once again, given my previous comments about > leading and trailing spaces and stuff, plus, not knowing how to get the nth > character of a string, I'm not really sure there's a good solution here.
My next best idea is to take the number 755, divide by 10 to get 75, and then & 2 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
