On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser)
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm running a script as root, I'm going to parse a file.  I can easily test
> that the file is owned by root.  I want to test if the group or other write
> bit is set.
>
>
>
> If using "find" you can test that a file is writable by yourself - but not
> test if it's writable by anyone else.
>

If you were going to use GNU find you could do something like:

find . -type f -perm /022

not making calls out to helpers is always nice tho.

-s
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