Pastable version of Pretty output of permission bits for a file

<pre class='prettyprint' language='ruby'># [user@host ~]$ ls -l blah
# -rwxr--r-- 1 user users 0 2008-11-06 15:20 foo

def convert(file)
	output = [&quot;&quot;]

File.stat(file).mode.to_s(8).slice(-3..-1).split('').each do |m|
	case m.to_i
		when 1 then output &lt;&lt; [&quot;-&quot;,&quot;-&quot;,&quot;x&quot;]
		when 2 then output &lt;&lt; [&quot;-&quot;,&quot;w&quot;,&quot;-&quot;]
		when 3 then output &lt;&lt; [&quot;-&quot;,&quot;w&quot;,&quot;x&quot;]
		when 4 then output &lt;&lt; [&quot;r&quot;,&quot;-&quot;,&quot;-&quot;]
		when 5 then output &lt;&lt; [&quot;r&quot;,&quot;-&quot;,&quot;x&quot;]
		when 6 then output &lt;&lt; [&quot;r&quot;,&quot;w&quot;,&quot;-&quot;]
		when 7 then output &lt;&lt; [&quot;r&quot;,&quot;w&quot;,&quot;x&quot;]
		end
	end
  output.flatten!
	if File.directory?(file) then output[0] = &quot;d&quot;; end
	if File.file?(file) then output[0] = &quot;-&quot;; end
	if File.symlink?(file) then output[0] = &quot;l&quot;; end
	if File.setuid?(file) then output[3] = &quot;s&quot;; end
	if File.setgid?(file) then output[6] = &quot;s&quot;; end
	if File.sticky?(file) 
		if output[3] &amp;&amp; output[6] == &quot;-&quot;
			output[9] = &quot;T&quot;
		else
			output[9] = &quot;t&quot;
		end
	end
	puts output.flatten.to_s
end

convert('poop')</pre>
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