Find World readable/writable files syntax error

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Sat Feb 5 16:53:03 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 01:53 +0900, Mark Sargent wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> used the following,
> find / \( -perm -a+r -o -perm -a+w \) ! -type 1 >> world_readwrite.txt
> from this article,
> http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=04/04/15/1918219
> but, got the following error,
> find: invalid argument `1' to `-type'
> 
> Is the syntax different for fedora2..? Cheers.

"man find" has the answer.

Hint: you are confusing "1" and "l".

Paul.
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