[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I'm trying to put the string from the system("ls -al") into a variable. It
> simply prints to the page and puts 1 in the variable.
perldoc -f system
> I wan't to use this variable to determine the permissions for the files on a
> linux machine. Is there an easier way?
The third field returned from the stat (or lstat) function contains all
the permission bits for a file.
perldoc -f stat
perldoc -f lstat
man 2 stat
John
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