Re: [SLUG] list files with certain permissions

From: Kwan Lowe (kwan@digitalhermit.com)
Date: Sat Jul 02 2005 - 12:04:29 EDT


Chuck Hast wrote:
> Folks, I am trying to sort through a load of files and find some that need the
> permissions changed.
> Of course I can do a ls -al and see the whole thing, indeed I can dump it
> into less and go page by page, but I would like to really see the files that
> have the permissions set to 744, there are some that I need to set to 755.
>
> How can I see only those files with the 744 permissions?
>
>
>

BTW, you can combine the find with an arbitrary command:

find . -perm 744 -type f -exec chmod 755 {} \;

The above will change *all* files (not directories) that have 744 perms
to 755 perms.

To only list the files:

find . -perm 744 -type f -exec ls -l {} \;

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