Stat::lsMode would probably be of interest as well. http://search.cpan.org/author/MJD/Stat-lsMode-0.50/lsMode.pm
On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 10:41, R. Joseph Newton wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Hello Mother, > > > > While not knowing exactly what you want to do, > > in general you can use the backtick operators > > to return the output of an external script or > > program; for example, to get a 10 byte string > > of permissions on 'some.file' you could: > > > > $perm = substr (`ls -al some.file`, 0, 10); > > I like it! I'm not much of a 'nix user, and I'd forgotten that you could ls -al for > a single filename. This certainly pulls the wanted information in quite elegantly. > > Joseph -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
