Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:

> On Feb 22 2023, Thierry Volpiatto wrote:
>
>> So how do you interpret this: "drwxr-x---" (from file-attributes)?
>
> This is not a symbolic mode.

(file-modes-number-to-symbolic #o750)
=>"-rwxr-x---"

I will reformulate my question:

How one convert the output of (nth 8 (file-attributes "/home/user")) to
numeric mode?

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Thierry