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RE: How to "find" all writable files in a directory tree?


Igor,

At 14:22 2003-05-09, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
Winston,

Most of this is off-topic, but why not simply

find <dir> -type f -exec test -w {} \; -print

?
Or, if you want something more complex,

find <dir> -type f -exec sh -c "test -w {} && echo {}" \;

It should be noted that the overhead of this will be pretty high, especially considering how little real work is being done in "-exec" task. If the number of files to examine is at all large, working out the correct self-contained find incantation is quite likely worth the cognitive effort.


Also, on the offhand chance that there is a bug lurking somewhere here, it would be good to flush it out.

Randall Schulz


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