[bugs #10269] Find . -mode +w # would be a nice syntax

[James Youngman]

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URL: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=10269>
Project: findutils
Submitted by: 0
On: Sat 09/04/04 at 20:04

Category:  find
Severity:  5 - Average
Item Group:  None
Resolution:  Invalid
Privacy:  Public
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Status:  Closed
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Summary:  Find .  -mode +w  # would be a nice syntax

Original Submission:   #find . -mode +w
find: invalid predicate `-mode'
 #find . -perm +w
find: invalid mode `+w'
 # 
 ## find accepts, of course, the following:
 #find . -perm +222



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Date: Mon 09/06/04 at 01:50         By: Bob Proulx <rwp>
I think this is just a misunderstanding of the way find's options work.  find's 
-perm option takes '+' as a option already.  The documentation says the 
following:

  If MODE starts with `+', true if _any_ of the permissions set  in MODE are 
set for the file; permissions not set in MODE are ignored.

Which means that the perm you are asking for is 'w'.  What is a 'w' perm?

What you really want to do is to use u+w or a+w or whatever.  That turns this 
into the following.

  find . -perm +u+w -print

That works fine.
Bob Proulx <address@hidden>













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