• Note the dash in front of the permission string, without it, the meaning would be different. See e.g. the Linux man page for find , look for "( expr )" and "-perm mode".
  • To use the find command in Linux to find files based on their permission, you can use the -perm option.
  • Find all the SGID bit files whose permissions are set to 644. # find / -perm 2644.
  • 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.
  • I've been playing around with the -perm option of the find command, and I want to know what the difference is between the -perm -mode and -perm /mode And if possible to give an example of each?
  • You can audit permissions on your Linux system by using the find command with the -perm option. Plus four bonus permissions auditing methods.
  • I wonder what \( -perm -4000 -o -perm -2000 \) does. I think it is permission levels but i have trouble finding the -perm command in any documentations.
  • 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.
  • 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)
  • This option is used to search for files that were modified/created after ‘file’. 7.-perm octal  ... # find / -type d -perm 777 -print -exec chmod 755 {} \