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

[Randall R Schulz <rschulz at sonic dot net>]

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At 15:18 2003-05-09, lists@m8y.org wrote:
> On Fri, 9 May 2003, Winston Gutkowski wrote:
>
> > Don't want to flog a dead horse, but if I read the manpages right 
> it seems that
> > -222
> > should be true only if the 'w' flag is on in all 3 positions, but
> > +222
> > will be true only if the 'w' flag is on in *any* of the 3 positions.
> >
> > Is this right? Also, I didn't find any refernce to the shorthand 
> +2. Perhaps it's one of those mystical osmosis things...:-)

Winston. You're right. There is no such thing in GNU find.


> > My reading of the manual is that:
> > -222 examines bit 2 being on in all of the 3 areas
> > +2 examines bit 2 being on in all of the 3 areas
> > 222 checks exact permissions 222
>
> Erm.
>  +2 examines bit 2 being on in all of the 3 areas
> should read
>  +2 examines bit 2 being on in any of the 3 areas

There is no such shorthand (documented). "-perm +2" will only match 
when the other / world write bit is set. It will not mach when the 
owner and / or group write bits are set and the other / world write bit 
is not. And so on, as my previous experiment showed.

Maybe you're thinking of a some other find--a non GNU version?


Randall Schulz 


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