How to "find" all writable files in a directory tree?
Randall R Schulz
rschulz@sonic.net
Fri May 9 21:35:00 GMT 2003
Igor,
At 14:22 2003-05-09, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>Winston,
>
>Most of this is off-topic, but why not simply
>
>find <dir> -type f -exec test -w {} \; -print
>
>?
>Or, if you want something more complex,
>
>find <dir> -type f -exec sh -c "test -w {} && echo {}" \;
It should be noted that the overhead of this will be pretty high,
especially considering how little real work is being done in "-exec"
task. If the number of files to examine is at all large, working out
the correct self-contained find incantation is quite likely worth the
cognitive effort.
Also, on the offhand chance that there is a bug lurking somewhere here,
it would be good to flush it out.
Randall Schulz
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