Hi, Instead of parsing the output of ls you could use the stat command: stat -c %a <file> Otherwise, you could try removing the ACL from the files (if you can): find . -print0 |xargs -0 -n 1 sudo setfattr -h -x security.selinux Remember that the last character can be: ' ' (blank) no SELinux coverage '.' (dot) ordinary SELinux context only '+' (plus) SELinux ACLs or other things beyond ordinary context Sanya Rajan -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert P. J. Day Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 2:45 PM To: Community assistance, encouragement,and advice for using Fedora. Subject: Re: what's with that trailing "." for the mode from "ls -l" On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 07:23 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i once knew this, really. what's the explanation of that recent > > introduction of an extra period after the normal mode bits in the > > output from "ls -l"? > > Let me google that for you: > > http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ls+dot+permissions a followup question would be, is there an ls option that would *prevent* that security setting character from being printed? i ask since i'm working with a software project (openembedded) that specifically takes a mode setting in symbolic mode (from the output of "ls -l"), and uses sed to translate it to numeric mode, and the script to do that doesn't take into account that potential trailing period and promptly converts, say, "-rwxr-xr-x." to the string "755.", which then causes the subsequent call to install to crash with a bad numeric mode argument. right now, an easy solution is to just manually strip the trailing period in every such case, but it would be easier to replace the invocation of "ls" with one that just didn't list that period in the first place. i don't see such an option in "man ls" or "info ls". does one exist? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ======================================================================== -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines ******************** Nedbank Limited Reg No 1951/000009/06. The following link displays the names of the Nedbank Board of Directors and Company Secretary. [ http://www.nedbank.co.za/terms/DirectorsNedbank.htm ] This email is confidential and is intended for the addressee only. The following link will take you to Nedbank's legal notice. [ http://www.nedbank.co.za/terms/EmailDisclaimer.htm ] ******************** -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
