In my Mac, when I open terminal, how would I go about listing all files within a directory and subs that are NON-readonly?
The readonly part is the one i’m not sure on.
Thanks.
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In my Mac, when I open terminal, how would I go about listing all files within a directory and subs that are NON-readonly?
The readonly part is the one i’m not sure on.
Thanks.
First define or decide what ‘NON-readonly’ means. Is a file that’s executable not readonly? What about a file that has no permissions (it isn’t readonly, but it isn’t readable either).
Second, use
findwith appropriate options (-perm, maybe-maxdepth) to generate the list of files, and then executegrep:The
+is a recent but useful innovation. If it is not available, you could use GNUfindand its-print0piped to GNUxargs -0instead, but GNUfindsupports the+notation anyway. If you don’t have GNUfindand GNUxargs, you may have to use plain-printandxargs, but that doesn’t properly handle file names with oddball characters (spaces, newlines in particular) in the names.