how to display file permission in numerical format without using stat

Hello all,

I am using HP-UX. I am not able to find stat command on my machine.
When I do ls -l command I am getting
rwxrwxrwx .......
Instead how can I retrieve the file permission in numerical form.


Thanks in advance,
Murugesan

That is much harder than it seems. See this thread. And read through the thread to to end. Note that my script has a bug which is corrected a few posts later. The final awk solution posted by Jimbo may be the best approach.

Thanks Perderabo for pointing to the link. That was really useful.