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RE: How to "find" all writable files in a directory tree?
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Randall R Schulz <rschulz at sonic dot net>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 17:39:28 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: RE: How to "find" all writable files in a directory tree?
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Randall,
I was not providing the correct way to solve the original problem, I was
correcting Winston's statement that you needed a separate script.
Personally, I'd use the -perm invocation in this particular case...
Igor
P.S. Bug? What bug? ;-)
On Fri, 9 May 2003, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> Igor,
>
> At 14:22 2003-05-09, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >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 {}" \;
>
> It should be noted that the overhead of this will be pretty high,
> especially considering how little real work is being done in "-exec"
> task. If the number of files to examine is at all large, working out
> the correct self-contained find incantation is quite likely worth the
> cognitive effort.
>
> Also, on the offhand chance that there is a bug lurking somewhere here,
> it would be good to flush it out.
>
> Randall Schulz
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