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What is a simple standard command line way of getting 'ls' to produce file permission in octal?

Any know a standard way, other than 'stat' to produce octal output for file permission from 'ls'? Standard way of using stat (on OSX) is: stat -f '%A %a %N' * where * can be any file pattern that ...
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Overwrite ls in .bash_profile

I'm new to bash and unix. I'm trying to create an alias for ls. In my .bash_profile I have the following: alias ls="ls -lhHG" This doesn't work at all. If I change it to: alias la="ls -lhHG" ...