How to "find" all writable files in a directory tree?
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Fri May 9 22:18:00 GMT 2003
On Fri, 9 May 2003, Winston Gutkowski wrote:
> Don't want to flog a dead horse, but if I read the manpages right it seems that
> -222
> should be true only if the 'w' flag is on in all 3 positions, but
> +222
> will be true only if the 'w' flag is on in *any* of the 3 positions.
>
> Is this right? Also, I didn't find any refernce to the shorthand +2. Perhaps it's one of those mystical osmosis things...:-)
>
>
> My reading of the manual is that:
> -222 examines bit 2 being on in all of the 3 areas
> +2 examines bit 2 being on in all of the 3 areas
> 222 checks exact permissions 222
Erm.
+2 examines bit 2 being on in all of the 3 areas
should read
+2 examines bit 2 being on in any of the 3 areas
A little careless vi yy
> > >-perm +mode
> > > Any of the permission bits mode are set for the file.
> > >
> > >-perm -222 is equivalent to -perm +2
> >
> > Either I'm dense or you're mistaken.
>
> I could be mistaken, but -perm +2 has always worked for me. I'll test it later.
>
>
> > Are you assuming a FAT file system? Cygwin takes advantage of NTFS
> > permissions when possible (and when the now-default ntsec option of the
> > CYGWIN environment variable is enabled).
>
> Nope, and yes, am aware :)
>
> > Randall Schulz
> >
> >
> >
> >
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