Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote [edited]:
> 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.
Changing 755 to either 0755 or 8#755 makes bash treat it as octal.
So, use "stat --format 0%a" or "stat --format 8#%a" and simply do & 2.
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