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Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 17:22:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: Winston Gutkowski <winston DOT gutkowski AT eztext DOT com>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, "Karr, David" <David DOT Karr AT wamu DOT net>
Subject: RE: How to "find" all writable files in a directory tree?
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Winston,

Most of this is off-topic, but why not simply

find <dir> -type f -exec test -w {} \; -print

?
Or, if you want something more complex,

find <dir> -type f -exec sh -c "test -w {} && echo {}" \;

HTH,
	Igor

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 AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com]On Behalf
> Of Karr, David
> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 13:53
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT 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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