Has anyone used File.stat to check permissions

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1

In ruby API there is an example

s = File.stat("testfile")
   sprintf("%o", s.mode) #=> "100644"

I need to check the last three numbers from the octal notation which is
"644"
which means:
rw- for user
r-- for group
r-- for other

Does anyone know how i could check just those three numbers and leave
the rest

Regards
Loftz

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2

If you're wanting to compare to the String "644":

s.mode.to_s(8)[-3..-1] == "644"

otherwise, you can mask using bitwise & and compare to the Fixnum
0644:

(s.mode & 0xFFF) == 0644
(s.mode & 07777) == 0644

Jeremy

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On Nov 25, 3:29 pm, Peter Loftus <lof...@gmail.com> wrote:

In ruby API there is an example

s = File.stat("testfile")
   sprintf("%o", s.mode) #=> "100644"

I need to check the last three numbers from the octal notation which is
"644"
which means:
rw- for user
r-- for group
r-- for other

Does anyone know how i could check just those three numbers and leave
the rest

Regards
Loftz
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3

Sorry, those masks will probably work in most cases, but I guess you
should really use 0777 or 0x1FF to only get the ugo fields. Otherwise,
there might be problems if something is setuid or has the sticky bit
set.

Jeremy

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On Nov 25, 4:36 pm, yermej <yer...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Nov 25, 3:29 pm, Peter Loftus <lof...@gmail.com> wrote:

> In ruby API there is an example

> s = File.stat("testfile")
> sprintf("%o", s.mode) #=> "100644"

> I need to check the last three numbers from the octal notation which is
> "644"
> which means:
> rw- for user
> r-- for group
> r-- for other

> Does anyone know how i could check just those three numbers and leave
> the rest

> Regards
> Loftz
> --
> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

If you're wanting to compare to the String "644":

s.mode.to_s(8)[-3..-1] == "644"

otherwise, you can mask using bitwise & and compare to the Fixnum
0644:

(s.mode & 0xFFF) == 0644
(s.mode & 07777) == 0644

Jeremy

4

I don't see why it should be necessary to go through string
representation. You can simply use bit operations:

s = File.stat("testfile")
puts "all set!" if s.mode & 0644 != 0

Peter, or did you mean "set" and not "check"? Then you need to
actually set the mode, for example

# untested
require 'fileutils'
s = File.stat("testfile")
FileUtils.chmod(s | 0644, ["testfile"])

Kind regards

robert

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2007/11/26, yermej <yermej@gmail.com>:

On Nov 25, 4:36 pm, yermej <yer...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 25, 3:29 pm, Peter Loftus <lof...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > In ruby API there is an example
>
> > s = File.stat("testfile")
> > sprintf("%o", s.mode) #=> "100644"
>
> > I need to check the last three numbers from the octal notation which is
> > "644"
> > which means:
> > rw- for user
> > r-- for group
> > r-- for other
>
> > Does anyone know how i could check just those three numbers and leave
> > the rest
>
> > Regards
> > Loftz
> > --
> > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
> If you're wanting to compare to the String "644":
>
> s.mode.to_s(8)[-3..-1] == "644"
>
> otherwise, you can mask using bitwise & and compare to the Fixnum
> 0644:
>
> (s.mode & 0xFFF) == 0644
> (s.mode & 07777) == 0644
>
> Jeremy

Sorry, those masks will probably work in most cases, but I guess you
should really use 0777 or 0x1FF to only get the ugo fields. Otherwise,
there might be problems if something is setuid or has the sticky bit
set.

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