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02-13-2008

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Quote:

Originally Posted by maficdan

I'm looking for a easy way to do a recursive search through a directory structure for all files that begin with '.' that are group or other writable. Any suggestions?

For shame, that is actually in the "find" man-page EXAMPLES section.

Code:

find . -type f -name ".*" -perm /-g+w,u+w