Follow-up Comment #9, bug #58654 (project findutils): Thanks for the heads-up.
Especially thanks for the additional example. However, it does not look very enlightening to me. find . −perm −+w prints (−print is assumed) the names of all files in or below the current directory, with S_IWUSR set if the file creation mask does not have S_IWUSR set (otherwise the S_IWUSR bit is ignored), S_IWGRP set if the file creation mask does not have S_IWGRP set (otherwise S_IWGRP is ignored), and S_IWOTH set if the file creation mask does not have S_IWOTH set (otherwise S_IWOTH is ignored). It is not very clear if the 3 conditions are logically OR-ed or AND-ed. Furthermore, in practice, `find -perm -+w` will output only files which have ugo+w permissions, regardless of the current umask, right? $ for perm in u ug ugo uo g go o ; do \ > f-$perm \ && chmod a-rwx,$perm+w f-$perm; \ done $ ls -log f-* -----w---- 1 0 Feb 2 02:39 f-g -----w--w- 1 0 Feb 2 02:39 f-go --------w- 1 0 Feb 2 02:39 f-o --w------- 1 0 Feb 2 02:39 f-u --w--w---- 1 0 Feb 2 02:39 f-ug --w--w--w- 1 0 Feb 2 02:39 f-ugo --w-----w- 1 0 Feb 2 02:39 f-uo $ for u in 0000 0002 0022 0020 0222 0202 0220; do ( echo "umask: $u"; umask $u && find -perm -+w ); done umask: 0000 ./f-ugo umask: 0002 ./f-ugo umask: 0022 ./f-ugo umask: 0020 ./f-ugo umask: 0222 ./f-ugo umask: 0202 ./f-ugo umask: 0220 ./f-ugo _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?58654> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/