find . -perm 0444 -print -o -perm 0440 -print -o -perm 0400 -print Assuming they're not mode 0000 or 0040 or something goofy.
man find and look at the examples of -perm -mode , -perm /mode , and the examples. Ben On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 08:57:12PM -0700, Howard Sanner wrote: > 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 -- Ben Stern This space intentionally left blank.
