List readonly files
I need to list or show or query for the files in a folder (well, technically, on a USB drive, but I can navigate to it in Finder/Terminal) that are marked readonly.
All the Google-fu in the world just reveals solutions to change permissions but I don't need to do that.
My Dashcam marks videos/images readonly to save them when I press the button on it, but they're still in a folder with a few hundred MOV files, and I need a simple way to filter down to the ones I am looking for.
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I need to list or show or query for the files in a folder (well, technically, on a USB drive, but I can navigate to it in Finder/Terminal) that are marked readonly.
All the Google-fu in the world just reveals solutions to change permissions but I don't need to do that.
My Dashcam marks videos/images readonly to save them when I press the button on it, but they're still in a folder with a few hundred MOV files, and I need a simple way to filter down to the ones I am looking for.
terminal finder permission
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I need to list or show or query for the files in a folder (well, technically, on a USB drive, but I can navigate to it in Finder/Terminal) that are marked readonly.
All the Google-fu in the world just reveals solutions to change permissions but I don't need to do that.
My Dashcam marks videos/images readonly to save them when I press the button on it, but they're still in a folder with a few hundred MOV files, and I need a simple way to filter down to the ones I am looking for.
terminal finder permission
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I need to list or show or query for the files in a folder (well, technically, on a USB drive, but I can navigate to it in Finder/Terminal) that are marked readonly.
All the Google-fu in the world just reveals solutions to change permissions but I don't need to do that.
My Dashcam marks videos/images readonly to save them when I press the button on it, but they're still in a folder with a few hundred MOV files, and I need a simple way to filter down to the ones I am looking for.
terminal finder permission
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One way is to make use of the -w option in bash to check if the file is writable or not.
Go into the directory you want to check your files, then enter:
for RO in $(find . -type f);do [ -r "$RO" ] && [ ! -w "$RO" ] && echo $RO;done
(credit to www.unix.com)
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List the files and grep for the read-only pattern:
ls -l | grep '^-r--'
^ symbol indicates start the line.
We are filtering only files here by mentioning ^-, after that looking only for read permission files by specifying r--. If you want to filter read & executable permission files, you can use r-x.
If you want just the filename, you can use below command
ls -l | grep '^-r--' | awk 'NF>1{print $NF}'
Printing the file name using above command works, only if you don't have spaces in file name.
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Grepping thels -lis a smart way to do it, but beware that your files might start with-rw-r--r--withrootas the owner, and such files won't be listed, even though they aren't writeable for the user.
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find . -perm -/444 ! -perm /222
searches for all files/folders which are readable (-perm -/444) but not writable (! -perm /222).
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One way is to make use of the -w option in bash to check if the file is writable or not.
Go into the directory you want to check your files, then enter:
for RO in $(find . -type f);do [ -r "$RO" ] && [ ! -w "$RO" ] && echo $RO;done
(credit to www.unix.com)
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One way is to make use of the -w option in bash to check if the file is writable or not.
Go into the directory you want to check your files, then enter:
for RO in $(find . -type f);do [ -r "$RO" ] && [ ! -w "$RO" ] && echo $RO;done
(credit to www.unix.com)
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One way is to make use of the -w option in bash to check if the file is writable or not.
Go into the directory you want to check your files, then enter:
for RO in $(find . -type f);do [ -r "$RO" ] && [ ! -w "$RO" ] && echo $RO;done
(credit to www.unix.com)
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One way is to make use of the -w option in bash to check if the file is writable or not.
Go into the directory you want to check your files, then enter:
for RO in $(find . -type f);do [ -r "$RO" ] && [ ! -w "$RO" ] && echo $RO;done
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List the files and grep for the read-only pattern:
ls -l | grep '^-r--'
^ symbol indicates start the line.
We are filtering only files here by mentioning ^-, after that looking only for read permission files by specifying r--. If you want to filter read & executable permission files, you can use r-x.
If you want just the filename, you can use below command
ls -l | grep '^-r--' | awk 'NF>1{print $NF}'
Printing the file name using above command works, only if you don't have spaces in file name.
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Grepping thels -lis a smart way to do it, but beware that your files might start with-rw-r--r--withrootas the owner, and such files won't be listed, even though they aren't writeable for the user.
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List the files and grep for the read-only pattern:
ls -l | grep '^-r--'
^ symbol indicates start the line.
We are filtering only files here by mentioning ^-, after that looking only for read permission files by specifying r--. If you want to filter read & executable permission files, you can use r-x.
If you want just the filename, you can use below command
ls -l | grep '^-r--' | awk 'NF>1{print $NF}'
Printing the file name using above command works, only if you don't have spaces in file name.
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Grepping thels -lis a smart way to do it, but beware that your files might start with-rw-r--r--withrootas the owner, and such files won't be listed, even though they aren't writeable for the user.
– Yoric
3 hours ago
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List the files and grep for the read-only pattern:
ls -l | grep '^-r--'
^ symbol indicates start the line.
We are filtering only files here by mentioning ^-, after that looking only for read permission files by specifying r--. If you want to filter read & executable permission files, you can use r-x.
If you want just the filename, you can use below command
ls -l | grep '^-r--' | awk 'NF>1{print $NF}'
Printing the file name using above command works, only if you don't have spaces in file name.
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List the files and grep for the read-only pattern:
ls -l | grep '^-r--'
^ symbol indicates start the line.
We are filtering only files here by mentioning ^-, after that looking only for read permission files by specifying r--. If you want to filter read & executable permission files, you can use r-x.
If you want just the filename, you can use below command
ls -l | grep '^-r--' | awk 'NF>1{print $NF}'
Printing the file name using above command works, only if you don't have spaces in file name.
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Grepping thels -lis a smart way to do it, but beware that your files might start with-rw-r--r--withrootas the owner, and such files won't be listed, even though they aren't writeable for the user.
– Yoric
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Grepping thels -lis a smart way to do it, but beware that your files might start with-rw-r--r--withrootas the owner, and such files won't be listed, even though they aren't writeable for the user.
– Yoric
3 hours ago
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Grepping the
ls -l is a smart way to do it, but beware that your files might start with -rw-r--r-- with root as the owner, and such files won't be listed, even though they aren't writeable for the user.– Yoric
3 hours ago
Grepping the
ls -l is a smart way to do it, but beware that your files might start with -rw-r--r-- with root as the owner, and such files won't be listed, even though they aren't writeable for the user.– Yoric
3 hours ago
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find . -perm -/444 ! -perm /222
searches for all files/folders which are readable (-perm -/444) but not writable (! -perm /222).
answered 30 mins ago
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find . -perm -/444 ! -perm /222
searches for all files/folders which are readable (-perm -/444) but not writable (! -perm /222).
answered 30 mins ago
nohillside♦
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find . -perm -/444 ! -perm /222
searches for all files/folders which are readable (-perm -/444) but not writable (! -perm /222).
answered 30 mins ago
nohillside♦
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find . -perm -/444 ! -perm /222
searches for all files/folders which are readable (-perm -/444) but not writable (! -perm /222).
answered 30 mins ago
nohillside♦
50.8k13109148
answered 30 mins ago
nohillside♦
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answered 30 mins ago
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