Question

I’m trying to write a simple bash script which should copy all files with complete permissions from some folders sent as parameters to a new folder.

This is what I have so far:

for dir in $@
do
find $dir -perm -exec cp{} newLocation \;
done

It says that -exec is not a known command here. What am I missing?

Answer 1

-perm requires a parameter that is permissions. What is happening here is that find is trying to interpret -exec as that permission.

You probably want something along the lines of

find $dir -perm 777 -exec cp {} newLocation \;