• The "perm" option of find command accepts the same mode string like chmod. The following command finds all files with permission 644 and sgid bit set.
  • / -perm -u=s -type f 2>/dev/null. search for files in a directory hierarchy. find [-H] [-L] [-P] [-D debugopts] [-Olevel] [path...] [expression].
  • Find by permission. You can use the -perm option to search for files based on their permissions. find public_html/wp-admin/css -perm /444.
  • Here, the plus 1G means greater than 1G. How do you find a file by permission on a linux? You can use the find command with search parameters perm.
  • find -perm mode. ... find . -perm 777. To find all files with access of read and write for all (exact match, it won't match if the file has execute permission for all)
  • find . -perm 0600. ... find dira dirb dirc -perm -0600 -print. We highly recommend the following article to get more info about file permissions in Linux.
  • For example: find . -type f -perm 777 -exec chmod 755 {} \; This will search the current directory (and all subdirectories) for files that have 777 permissions.
  • find - search for files in a directory hierarchy. Find SUID bit. $ find / -perm /4000 -user root -type f -ls 2>/dev/null 13501117 56...
  • Multiple permissions can be specified using comma like perm g=w ,o=x,o=r. find . -perm -444 finds files which are writable by all in current dir.
  • For example, a file whose permissions are 440 would not show up in a find . -perm -200, despite the value 400 appearing to be “greater than” 200?