Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 07:45 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
[...]
>> 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.
>
> Not that I know of. The "What information is listed" node of the ls
> info pages describes the characters used to indicate alternate
> access methods when listing files with '-l' but does not mention a
> way to suppress this.
I would argue that scraping the ls output in this way is broken and
that openembedded is what should be fixed (using stat as Sanya
suggests is one good alternative).
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