http://blog.solaris.bytelabs.org/articles/2009/09/27/print-file-permission-in-octal-format en-us 40 additions to a vast pool of entropy <pre> $ stat --format=%a,%U,%G,%t,%n &lt;fname&gt; </pre> Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:22:00 +0000 urn:uuid:80276083-5df4-436b-8a41-7263e4ee6329 igor http://blog.solaris.bytelabs.org/articles/2009/09/27/print-file-permission-in-octal-format Hacking and Computers