On Tuesday 11 May 2004 08:13 am, Bart Dorsey wrote: > On Monday 10 May 2004 11:17 am, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> > do with the "sticky bit", about which I wouldn't mind reading. It > > seems that in most references that I have seen they don't talk about > > it much. > > Okay, here goes ;) you asked for it ;) Since he asked for it, and since I think I'm the last person on earth who still has a copy of my hacked ls, I will present the ultimate completely useless list of every combination from 0000 to 7777 Nah, nevermind. That's a 268K file. Ouch! :) But just to prove what a dork I am: $touch glee;for ((a=0;a<=7;++a));do for ((b=0;b<=7;++b));do for ((c=0;c<=7; ++c));do for ((d=0;d<=7;++d));do chmod $a$b$c$d glee;ls -O glee;done;done;done;done > foo $tail foo 7766 -rwsrwSrwT 1 silvan silvan 0 May 12 02:53 glee 7767 -rwsrwSrwt 1 silvan silvan 0 May 12 02:53 glee 7770 -rwsrws--T 1 silvan silvan 0 May 12 02:53 glee 7771 -rwsrws--t 1 silvan silvan 0 May 12 02:53 glee 7772 -rwsrws-wT 1 silvan silvan 0 May 12 02:53 glee 7773 -rwsrws-wt 1 silvan silvan 0 May 12 02:53 glee 7774 -rwsrwsr-T 1 silvan silvan 0 May 12 02:53 glee 7775 -rwsrwsr-t 1 silvan silvan 0 May 12 02:53 glee 7776 -rwsrwsrwT 1 silvan silvan 0 May 12 02:53 glee 7777 -rwsrwsrwt 1 silvan silvan 0 May 12 02:53 glee (I hate it that GNU rejected my patch. I think ls -O is indispensably handy. It's not worth forking whatever superpackage fileutils became though.) -- Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/