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From: mmuegel@camdev.comm.mot.com	 (Michael S. Muegel)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: chmod() with a $variable mode
Keywords: chmod
Message-ID: <393@camdev.comm.mot.com?>
Date: 26 Feb 91 06:27:09 GMT
Reply-To: mmuegel@mot.com (Michael S. Muegel)
Organization: Motorola, Inc., Fort Worth, Texas
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I have been trying to get chmod working with a non-numeric mode argument
(e.g. a scalar variable). I seems that the following:

  chmod ($Mode, $File);

does not work as expected. I think it is using the ASCII numerical values
or the like. When I do a ls -l I get bits I did not even know existed!

Now I think the answer invlolves using pack or vec, but then again, maybee
not. Can anyone enlighten me?

Thanks,
-Mike
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