topic Re: Find World Writable files in Operating System - HP-UX

Find World Writable files

Carl Munnelly — Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:38:34 GMT

I want to find World Wide writable files on UX 11i

trying find / -local -perm -002 \(type f -o -type d \) -print

but this returns "missing conjuction.

Any ideas

Re: Find World Writable files

curt larson_1 — Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:52:03 GMT

is \(type f -o -type d \) a typo
\(-type f -o -type d \)

Re: Find World Writable files

Sundar_7 — Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:54:21 GMT

Try this

find / -local -perm -002 \( -type f -o -type d \) -print

You dont have a hyphen before type

Re: Find World Writable files

Carl Munnelly — Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:54:22 GMT

Sometimes on nights you need someone else to spot you obvious error as you don't spot them yourself