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RE: How to "find" all writable files in a directory tree?
-perm +222 is redundant
-perm +mode
Any of the permission bits mode are set for the file.
-perm -222 is equivalent to -perm +2
On Fri, 9 May 2003, Winston Gutkowski wrote:
> I believe you need to use
> find <dir> -perm +222 -ls
>
> Alternatively, put the following command:
> test -w $1 && echo $1
>
> into a file, make it executable, and try
>
> find <dir> -exec <file> {} \;
>
> HIH
>
> Winston
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf
> Of Karr, David
> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 13:53
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: How to "find" all writable files in a directory tree?
>
>
> I need to find all the files in a directory tree that are writable. So,
> the "find" man page has the following text:
>
> -------------------------
> -perm mode
> File's permission bits are exactly mode (octal or
> symbolic).
> Symbolic modes use mode 0 as a point of departure.
>
> -perm -mode
> All of the permission bits mode are set for the file.
>
> -perm +mode
> Any of the permission bits mode are set for the file.
> -------------------------
>
> I'm not quite sure what this tells me. I guessed that "-perm +w" would
> do what I want. Unfortunately, when I use this it says:
>
> find: invalid mode `+w'
>
> I'm on Cygwin 1.3.22.
>
> Am I misunderstanding what this man page says?
>
>
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