I have set of linux folders and I need to get the permissions of the folders numerically.  For example in the below directory, I need to what is the permission value of the folder... Whether 755, 644 or 622 etc...  drwxrwsr-x 2 dev    puser 4096 Jul  7  2014 fonts
In FreeBSD and also in Linux, how can I get the numerical chmod value of a file? For example, 644 instead of -rw-r--r--? I need an automatic way for a Bash script.
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Shapefile: "table1.shp"   Field name: "Name" Field name: "Result"   Flat file: "referenceTable"   Field name: "STREET" Field name: "AKA"   I need to compare the value "Name" in "table1.shp" to the value "STREET" in "referenceTable"  If the values are the same then put the "AKA" value into the "Result" in "table1.shp"     Here is my code.  I got stuck on accessing the elements from the array  import arcpy, os, sys, string from array import *   table1 = "G:\\xStreetNew\\table1.shp" table1_column = ['Name', 'Result'] referenceTable = "G:\\xStreetNew\\Test.gdb\\referenceTable" referenceTable_column = ['STREET', 'AKA']  referenceTable_List = [] with arcpy.da.SearchCursor(referenceTable, referenceTable_column) as rCur: for r_row in rCur:     reference_row = r_row[0].split(",")     referenceTable_List.insert(0,reference_row) ##print sorted(referenceTable_List)  Table1_Update_Cursor = arcpy.da.UpdateCursor(table1, "Name") for row in Table1_Update_Cursor:   if row[0] == None:   row[0] = row[0] else:   row[0] = row[0].replace(";",",")   Table1_Update_Cursor.updateRow(row)  table1_List = [] with arcpy.da.SearchCursor(table1, table1_column) as tCur: for t_row in tCur:     row = t_row[0].split(",")     table1_List.insert(0,row) ##print sorted(table1_List)  Table1_row = len(table1_List) Table1_column = len([table1_List]) ref_row = len(referenceTable_List) for i in range(0,Table1_row):  #Table Row   for ii in range(0,Table1_column):   #Table Column     print table1_List[i][ii]   Below was my old post.  Sorry for the confusion.  I have a shapefile named "table1.shp".     I would like to get all values from fielname "Name" from this table and put them into a list. Able to output each element from the list     So far, I'm able to create a list but not too sure how to get to value "AVENUE 33" or "CHAPMAN ST"  This is my code:  import arcpy, os, sys, string from array import *   table1 = "G:\\xStreetNew\\table1.shp" referenceTable = "G:\\xStreetNew\\Test.gdb\\referenceTable" cursor = arcpy.da.UpdateCursor(table1, "Name") for row in cursor: if row[0] == None:     row[0] = row[0] else:     row[0] = row[0].replace(";",",") cursor.updateRow(row) table1_column = ['Name'] table1_curObj = arcpy.da.SearchCursor(table1, table1_column) table1_List = [] for row in table1_curObj:    table1_row = row[0].split(",")    table1_List.insert(0,table1_row)    print table1_List[0] Rethrowing exceptions in Java without losing the stack trace Proof that every number ≥ $8$ can be represented by a sum of fives and threes.