Yet Another Linux Blog » script http://linux-blog.org Open Source, Open Blog Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:18:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Find Files & Directories Not Visible to Others for Webserver http://linux-blog.org/find-files-directories-not-visible-to-others-webserver/ http://linux-blog.org/find-files-directories-not-visible-to-others-webserver/#comments Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:01:17 +0000 devnet http://linux-blog.org/?p=794 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> I wanted a quick way to be able to find out what files weren’t visible to others (and therefore, not visible to website visitors).  Messing with arguments and the file command, you can do the following:

find -type f ! -perm -444

This locates all files not visible to ‘others’ in the current directory.  You can apply this to directories as well:

find -type d ! -perm -111

Hope this helps people like it helped me. :)

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