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

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-perm +222 is redundant

-perm +mode
    Any of the permission bits mode are set for the file.

-perm -222 is equivalent to -perm +2


On Fri, 9 May 2003, Winston Gutkowski wrote:

> 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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