Well, scripting around the "permission string" of ls -l is not something I typically do, but that string is pretty much the same on every platform I have worked on... until now :)
But I would not be surprised to see this change breaking scripts that others have. Kevin -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Adams Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 9:01 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [rhelv6-list] file permissions contains dot in rhel6 Once upon a time, Collins, Kevin [BEELINE] <[email protected]> said: > That's great for Linux, but it doesn't make for very portable scripting > since stat is not on all flavors of Unix... :) Well, the output format of "ls" is hardly portable either, so you've already got to be scripting around that. You could always use perl... -- Chris Adams <[email protected]> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. _______________________________________________ rhelv6-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list _______________________________________________ rhelv6-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list
