Login or Register to Ask a Question and Join Our Community


Shell Programming and Scripting

check if file is readable by others

Login to Discuss or Reply to this Discussion in Our Community

 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting check if file is readable by others
# 1  
Old 03-08-2011
check if file is readable by others
hi all,
in ksh script how do i detect if a file is readable by others ??

thanks.
# 2  
Old 03-08-2011
Code:
ls -l file | awk '{if($1 ~ /.r..r..r../)print "File is readable by all";}'

# 3  
Old 03-08-2011
Code:
[[ `stat --print=%A $1 | cut -c 8` = "r" ]] && echo "yes,readable for others"

# 4  
Old 03-08-2011
Code:
if ls -ld somefile | grep -q ^-......r; then 
  echo world readable file
fi

# 5  
Old 03-08-2011
Code:
[ "$(find "$filename" -perm -004)" ]

Cheers,
Alister
Last edited by alister; 03-08-2011 at 05:10 AM.. Reason: fixed mode. thanks, Scrutinizer
# 6  
Old 03-08-2011
@alister
-perm -004 , no?
This User Gave Thanks to Scrutinizer For This Post:
alister
# 7  
Old 03-08-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by Scrutinizer
-perm -004 , no?
Woops! Indeed. Fixed. Thank you for catching that. Smilie
Login or Register to Ask a Question

Previous Thread | Next Thread

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Convert UNIX timestamp to readable format in the file

Hello I have a file : file1.txt with the below contents : 237176 test1 test2 1442149024 237138 test3 test4 1442121300 237171 test5 test7 1442112823 237145 test9 test10 1442109600 In the above file fourth field represents the timestamp in Unix format. I found a command which converts... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: rahul2662
6 Replies

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

How do I make this file readable/printable?

When I do the file I get ELF 32-bit MSB executable SPARC Version 1, dynamically linked, not stripped I am almost 100% sure I was able to print a readable version of this file in the past but I cannot remember how. Is it possible to convert this file into something that can be read and or... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: fsanchez
3 Replies

3. Programming

writing to file is not readable by user

In the following code segment I write to some file using , but this write is not readable by me when i open the file. any helps would be thankful. #include<stdio.h> #include<stdlib.h> #include<unistd.h> #include<sys/types.h> #include<sys/stat.h> #include<errno.h> #include<fcntl.h>... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: saman_glorious
6 Replies

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

How to check if a file is not readable by anyone except the owner?

All, I have a script where I get a filename as input and do some processing with the file that I got as input. Requirement: Now I have a requirement where I need to check the following: If either of this goes wrong, the script should pop out a warning message. I tried searching the... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: bharath.gct
6 Replies

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

check whether file is readable or not in ksh

i want to check the readability of a file inside the script. when i use if then echo the file "$sourcef" is not readable else echo something fi i am getting the error : f: unknown test operator when i tried to check the availability with if i was... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: gotam
3 Replies

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Converting binary file to readable format in Ksh

In Unix/Ksh, when I try to look inside a file it says that the file may be a binary file and if I want to see it anyway. When i say 'yes', it shows me the content filled with unreadable symbols (looks like binary). Is there a command that I can run from the Unix prompt to convert/translate that... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: arthurs
3 Replies

7. SuSE

Regarding Readable check for all the files in the folder

Currently we are doing the migration to unix to linux. I am facing the new problem kganeshb@its04489:~/scripts $ ls -l | more total 340 -rw-r----- 1 kganeshb users 9038 Oct 22 13:23 109_db.txt -rw-rw---- 1 dlc users 1413 Oct 10 17:40 1.txt -rw-rw---- 1 kganeshb users 45 Jan 28 13:46 a... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: kingganesh04
2 Replies

8. HP-UX

file in malibox is readable format?

Hi, Files coming to mailbox are in readable format? Is there any special command to read these files. suppose i have sent a file like this megh$mailx -s "mesg" xyz@server.domain<file1.dat can xyz directly read the file from his mailbox? (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: megh
1 Replies

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Shell script that would check if the CD-rom is readable

Hi, I was wondering if there's a command in Linux that would check to see if a CD is inserted into CD-rom. I am developing a shell script that would copy a file from CD rom. For this, I have to first verify if the CD has been inserted or not. Can anyone help me? Thanks, Sundeep (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: eamani_sun
1 Replies

10. Programming

Core file without a readable stack trace

I am using gdb to examine a core file but the output contains only the method addresses in hex. Is there anyway to translate these addresses to a human-readable form? :confused: (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: ciregbu
0 Replies
Login or Register to Ask a Question