I am doing some modifications to a module which performs a file integrity check in the module admin. The admin script reads a text file containing a list of PHP files that should be present in a particular folder and compares this with the actual files.

The content of the text file looks like this:



At first I thought the module installer might create this, but it appears to have been done pre-installation. The first value after the path is the size in bytes. I have no idea what the second value is, but as you can see it can be the same for two different files.

Does anyone recognise the output format? I wondered if it might just some kind of a UNIX list command sent to print?

Any help would be welcome

Can you find the code that made these?

I am guessing it is one of three things...

file permissions (Most likely), group id, or user id.

If you look at the PHP command fileperms($path) you can try running that on those files to see what comes up.

There are other file commands in PHP that can help you identify what those are. It also is dependent on if you are running on linux, windows etc.

Well, I booted up my Linux laptop and it turns out you can do this using a rather convoluted combination of FIND, LS and AWK. For example:



that gives me:



which is pretty close. I just have to decide what to do about the second value. It's not a standard file attribute that I can see. Thankfully the script only seems concerned with the byte sizes so I'll probably just add a fixed value and see what happens.

Of course, in the time it took me to get the above to work, I could probably have gone through the file and changed the values one by one!

Well if you check out the following link it explains the number you get better..

It is not the normal Octal number we are used to.

This link explains how to use the number to extract what you want with PHP if in face you care about the file permissions.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fileperms.php

Thx for the link redheadedrod.

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In fact, looking closer I think the second value is the number of links, which is in fact a standard file attribute in UNIX.