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authorKevin Burke <kev@inburke.com>2018-12-17 00:37:07 +0000
committerBrad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>2018-12-18 21:17:16 +0000
commitc343b6b2b81f9c6d4007c2c3c567dfaadd4fa4e6 (patch)
tree3909004789c9a167fcab2984a27634095856cf88
parent7ef718f16fa05cd07bb0f7d22aa4bc57067de1f2 (diff)
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os: show how to print permission bits in octal
Permission bits are most commonly viewed in string form (rwx-- etc) or in octal form (0755), but the latter is relatively rare in Go. Demonstrate how to print a FileMode in readable octal format. Change-Id: I41feb801bcecb5077d4eabafdea27c149fc179a1 Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/154423 Run-TryBot: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org> Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org> Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
-rw-r--r--src/os/example_test.go1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/os/example_test.go b/src/os/example_test.go
index 5c96ebb417..8b6566e149 100644
--- a/src/os/example_test.go
+++ b/src/os/example_test.go
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ func ExampleFileMode() {
log.Fatal(err)
}
+ fmt.Printf("permissions: %#o\n", fi.Mode().Perm()) // 0400, 0777, etc.
switch mode := fi.Mode(); {
case mode.IsRegular():
fmt.Println("regular file")