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

[Winston Gutkowski]

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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