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> If using "stat" you can also get the perms in 755 format. From here, I can > easily do a bitwise & with 2, and I can easily find the world write bit. But bash > arithmetic doesn't view the number "755" in octal... It operates decimal. So I > can't bitwise & with 16, or with 020. I have to strip off the last character, and > then bitwise 75 with & 2. So once again, given my previous comments about > leading and trailing spaces and stuff, plus, not knowing how to get the nth > character of a string, I'm not really sure there's a good solution here. My next best idea is to take the number 755, divide by 10 to get 75, and then & 2