HP-UX Reference (11i v2 04/09) - 1 User Commands A-M (vol 1)

ﬁnd(1) ﬁnd(1)

find pathname -type f -print | xargs chmod 444

find pathname -type d -print | xargs chmod 555

Note that output from find was piped to xargs(1) instead of using the

-exec primary. This is

because when a large number of ﬁles or directories is to be processed by a single command, the

-exec primary spawns a separate process for each ﬁle or directory, whereas xargs collects ﬁle

names or directory names into multiple arguments to a single chmod command, resulting in fewer

processes and greater system efﬁciency. The

+ delimiter for the -exec primary can be used to

achieve the same efﬁciency.

Access Control List Examples

Find all ﬁles not owned by user

karl that have access control lists with at least one entry associated with

karl, and one entry for no speciﬁc user in group

bin with the read bit on and the write bit off:

find / ! -user karl -acl ’karl.*, %.bin+r-w’ -print

Find all ﬁles that have a read bit set in any access control list entry:

find / -acl ’*.*+r’ -print

Find all ﬁles that have the write bit unset and execute bit set in every access control list entry:

find / -acl ’=*.*-w+x’ -print

Find all ﬁles that have optional access control list entries:

find / -acl opt -print

DEPENDENCIES

NFS

The -acl primary is always false for NFS ﬁles.

WARNINGS

Because of interoperability goals,

cpio does not support archiving ﬁles larger than 2GB or ﬁles that have

user/group IDs larger than 60,000 (60K). Files with user/group IDs greater than 60K are archived and

restored under the user/group ID of the current process.

AUTHOR

find was developed by AT&T and HP.

FILES

/etc/group Group names

/etc/mnttab Mount points

/etc/passwd User names