Is there any easy way (easy = I don't have to write a program in C) to
search for files in a directory tree with certain permissions? I
looked at the man page for ls and didn't see anything obvious.
Here's what's going on. At some point some of my WAV files got their
permissions set to read only. I don't know whether that's because I
got the not-so-bright idea that that way they couldn't be deleted, or
if I used chmod recursively without thinking through the
ramifications. Either way, now, when I try to back them up to a USB
HD, I get lots of permission denied error messages when trying to copy
those files.
I've fixed a lot of them by hand, but there are still some "problem
children" out there. So if I could find all the files for which the
owner has only read permission and directories for which the owner has
other than rwx permission, that would be A Good Thing. Since there are
hundreds of GB of these files, running cp -a -r until it reports an
error is very time consuming.
Thanks for your advice.
Howard Sanner
linux-au...@terrier.ampexguy.com
a Terp of 1975 vintage
