I'm trying to remove the group and all users part from a permissions string. Such as -rwxr-xr-x and I want it to be -rwx and then take off the leading dash to make it rwx
Right now I'm getting the permissions string via this code: filePerms=$(stat --format=%A $path) where $path is just a any directory to a file.
Here my attempt at using cut to get rid of the 4th character and on filePermsTest=$(cut -c1- $filePerms) but I get this error:
cut: invalid option -- 'r'
Try 'cut --help' for more information.
59M 2014-03-21 19:25 -rw-r--r-- ./old/VMwareTools-9.6.2-1688356.tar.gz
Here's the part of the cut command I'm trying that use: N- from N'th byte, character or field, to end of line
For reference here's the normal output of my code (This doesn't have much to do with the question. It's just to give you a reference of what's going on and how this will be used):
Size Date Time Permissions File
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59M 2014-03-21 19:25 -rw-r--r-- ./old/VMwareTools-9.6.2-1688356.tar.gz
9.2M 2014-03-21 19:24 -rw-r--r-- ./old/vmware-tools-distrib/lib/icu/icudt44l.dat
7.6M 2013-07-07 21:21 -rwxr-xr-x ./old/Sublime Text 2/sublime_text
4.8M 2014-08-26 23:51 -rwxrwxr-x ./old/sublime_text_3/sublime_text
I think somehow part of permission string is being taken in as an argument.
Try stat --format=%A filename | cut -c 2-4.
This picks out the second to fourth characters, which are the ones you want.