What that means is you are "finding" files with specific permissions. For example find / -type f -perm -0002 is going to find any files (the type f sets this, use d for directories) that are world writable. The 4 numbers following the -perm are the same as chmod's perms. Do a man chmod to get a full listing. On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 07:24, Chadley Wilson wrote:
Greetings,
In my studies I have come across octal permision mode with the find command. What on earth does it do, mean, refer to ?
The section is as follows find -perm mode : List file with the octal permission mode
I can find a decent understandable answer in the man pages or google.
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