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Easily parse file permissions in msysgit on windows

If I was using linux or cygwin I could use stat --format=%a as described here.

But instead I want to use only the tools available in msysgit by default. My main options seems to be parsing the output of ls, but that is not very palatable:

drwxr-xr-x    0 jaxelson Administ        0 Jul 13  2009 PrintHood/
dr-xr-xr-x    0 jaxelson Administ     8192 Jan  3 09:22 Recent/

Are there any easier ways?

Back History: I need to do this because of a bug in sed where it doesn't preserve permissions correctly. For more info see this.

Also the script that is running sed is running as a git-hook.

Solution

  • You could use

    perl -e'printf "%o\n",(stat shift)[2] & 07777' <filename>