On 2002-05-19 11:05, David O'Brien wrote: > On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 05:29:22AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > Part of the problems I had when I tried to replace perl in > > mergemaster.sh with something `native' was that the perl code uses > > stat(2) to obtain the permission bits of a directory/file and I can't > > think of a way to do this with tools in the base system without > > resorting to ugly awk scripts that parse and translate ls(1) output. > > What is so ugly about it? It is not that many lines, and it is very easy > to read and understand what you are doing. Make it an sh function. > There is most likely code like this in the Perl binary. If this is so > ugly lets gut it out of perl also.
Alright. I'll probably use this or the sed stuff I posted as a followup to Alfred's mail. I haven't had much time to spend on FreeBSD today since I was trying to install NetBSD on a spare disk and start getting acquainted, but thanks for the positive feedback ;) -- Giorgos Keramidas - http://www.FreeBSD.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - The Power to Serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message