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Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 15:59:23 -0500
From: wayne <wayne AT reliant DOT immure DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: How to "find" all writable files in a directory tree?
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Reply-To: Wayne Willcox <wayne AT reliant DOT immure DOT com>
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In-Reply-To: <0C260F619E428642BFA6380177C3ADF302659F@exmsea005.us.wamu.net>; from David.Karr@wamu.net on Fri, May 09, 2003 at 01:52:56PM -0700
X-Operating-System: FreeBSD reliant.immure.com 4.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE

Well with the find I am used to you have to do the following for example...
find . -parm -666 

On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 01:52:56PM -0700, Karr, David wrote:
> 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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