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using the find command to find all files you have read access to

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http://www.linuxforums.org – Hi, I'm going through the exercises in Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming. One of them consists of using the find command to find all files you have read access to. At first I thought I could use something like -perm /o=r. But I also need to return stuff where the owner has read permission, and I am the owner of the file, or stuff where the group has read permission, and I am in the group. How do I do that? Thanks. (HowTos)

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Submitted by suki on 12/19/2009 – Made popular on 12/19/2009

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I encounter a strange problem on a unix/linux machine:

I'm member of a group, let's call it group A and a certain file (which has a different owner) belongs to group A as well. The permissions of that file are

-rw-rw----

so I'd expect I should be able to open that file, but I am not: I'll get the "Permission denied" error message when I try to look at the file's content (using cat).

I would like to find files only by a certain user's permission. For example, if I want to find a file that I have full permission.

I may do something like:

find . -user $(whoami) -perm

But what should I put after -perm, if I want ignore the permission of root and other users. I know there must be a lot of similar questions like this. But most of them are just similar.

Thanks in advance.

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