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

[Andrew DeFaria]

lists@m8y.org wrote:

>On Fri, 9 May 2003, Winston Gutkowski wrote:
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>>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...:-)
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>>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
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>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
>
This doesn't look right! How can +2 be both all and any?!?

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>A little careless vi yy
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>>>>-perm +mode
>>>>    Any of the permission bits mode are set for the file.
>>>>
>>>>-perm -222 is equivalent to -perm +2
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>>>Either I'm dense or you're mistaken.
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>>I could be mistaken, but -perm +2  has always worked for me.  I'll test it later.
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>>>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).
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>>Nope, and yes, am aware :)
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>>>Randall Schulz
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