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



At 14:44 2003-05-09, lists@m8y.org wrote:
-perm +222 is redundant

How do you figure? There are 8 combinations of write enable bits that this permission specification matches. For "-perm +2" only one bit is examined and there's only one way for it to succeed.



-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.


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).

Randall Schulz




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