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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