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

[Andrew DeFaria <ADeFaria at Salira dot com>]

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...:-)
> >
> >
> > 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
This doesn't look right! How can +2 be both all and any?!?

> 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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