On: Exa - A Modern Replacement for ls

[Aloha]

often I need to match permissions on something already there, so I'm trying to go "uhhh, its, rwxr-xr-x what does that translate to again?"

[ktm5j → Aloha]

You can use `stat -c '%a' filename` to get permissions in octal. I have an alias for this in my .bashrc