Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 18:34:00 -0400 (EDT) From: lists@m8y.org X-X-Sender: nemo@nautilus.m8y.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: How to "find" all writable files in a directory tree? In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.2.20030509152811.06694a80@pop.sonic.net> Message-ID: References: <5.2.1.1.2.20030509152811.06694a80@pop.sonic.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Fri, 9 May 2003, Randall R Schulz wrote: > AC,. > > At 15:18 2003-05-09, lists@m8y.org wrote: > >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...:-) > > Winston. You're right. There is no such thing in GNU find. > > > > > 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 > > There is no such shorthand (documented). "-perm +2" will only match > when the other / world write bit is set. It will not mach when the > owner and / or group write bits are set and the other / world write bit > is not. And so on, as my previous experiment showed. > > Maybe you're thinking of a some other find--a non GNU version? Stand corrected. P'raps this thread can die. :) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/