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RE: How to "find" all writable files in a directory tree?
- From: "Winston Gutkowski" <winston dot gutkowski at eztext dot com>
- To: "Cygwin" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>, "Karr, David" <David dot Karr at wamu dot net>
- Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 14:07:22 -0700
- Subject: RE: How to "find" all writable files in a directory tree?
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
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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:
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-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.
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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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