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Tip #205   Convert permissions to octal

Converts the symbolic permissions to octal (ie: numbers) when using 'ls -l': 

$ls -l | sed -e 's/--x/1/g' -e 's/-w-/2/g' -e 's/-wx/3/g' -e 's/r--/4/g' \
 -e 's/r-x/5/g' -e 's/rw-/6/g' -e 's/rwx/7/g' -e 's/---/0/g'

-755  1 jrl jrl  111943 2003-10-21 19:57 logscan
-644  1 jrl jrl   35468 2003-11-23 16:13 htfoo
-700  1 jrl jrl 3100672 2004-05-15 17:00 mutt
-644  1 jrl jrl   10162 2005-02-22 14:14 joinstep2.php
-777  1 jrl jrl   41079 2005-04-21 13:02 setistats
d755  2 jrl jrl      47 2007-10-26 14:41 rf
-700  1 jrl jrl     104 2008-02-05 11:26 getc
If you're going to use this, you may want to make an alias rather than type it in each time!
 
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