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Re: How to "find" all writable files in a directory tree?
This isn't really a cygwin bug, more of a failure to understand permission bits bug, but.
-perm +2
4,2,1 for rwx
5 for rx
Etc.
Just like with chmod
I'd recommend posting this question on a gnu, linux, or unix forum.
> 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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