Hello,
I want to know if there is a way to remove symbolic links from the output of the find . -perm -002 so i can see which actual files have write permission for anyone and check if its ok to be like that or not. So far i keep getting masses of output because the command is including symbolic links which as normal have 777 permissions so obviously i don't want to know about the perms of sym links, therefore if possible remove from the output, i wonder if the find commands "prune" option would help here but i'm not sure??

Cheers Regards
Mark

Hi
Use the command given below. it lists the files other than symbolic with permission of write for others.

find . -perm -002 ! -type -l

Cheers that superb, btw just for anyone in future it was

just l not -l :-) easy mistake

find . -perm -002 ! -type l


thanks again!!!