09-24-2009
Find Files in Directory by Permission?
Hello. I need to write a script that lets the user pick a directory. Then, all files are looped through, and the ones with read-write (for current user I think) are listed. Ending with a count of those files, but that parts easy. What I'm confused about is the middle.
So far I have
#!/bin/bash
clear
return=0
echo "please enter a directory name."
read directory
if [ -d "$directory" ]
then
echo "The $directory directory exists, looking..."
#LOOP SECTION HERE
else
echo "$directory does not exist"
return=1
fi
exit $return
Now I havent finished the WHOLE thing, but where I have the #comment is where I'm stuck and presumably where I'd begin the loop. How do I search the user input $directory for read-write files?
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RMDIR(1) General Commands Manual RMDIR(1)
NAME
rmdir, rm - remove (unlink) directories or files
SYNOPSIS
rmdir dir ...
rm [ -f ] [ -r ] [ -i ] [ - ] file ...
DESCRIPTION
Rmdir removes entries for the named directories, which must be empty.
Rm removes the entries for one or more files from a directory. If an entry was the last link to the file, the file is destroyed. Removal
of a file requires write permission in its directory, but neither read nor write permission on the file itself.
If a file has no write permission and the standard input is a terminal, its permissions are printed and a line is read from the standard
input. If that line begins with `y' the file is deleted, otherwise the file remains. No questions are asked and no errors are reported
when the -f (force) option is given.
If a designated file is a directory, an error comment is printed unless the optional argument -r has been used. In that case, rm recur-
sively deletes the entire contents of the specified directory, and the directory itself.
If the -i (interactive) option is in effect, rm asks whether to delete each file, and, under -r, whether to examine each directory.
The null option - indicates that all the arguments following it are to be treated as file names. This allows the specification of file
names starting with a minus.
SEE ALSO
rm(1), unlink(2), rmdir(2)
4.2 Berkeley Distribution April 29, 1985 RMDIR(1)