Find File with permission below 664

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi
Using find i want to find files with permission below 664.

2

What does "below" mean? Is 177 below 664? Is 1000?

man find

Read about the -perm test.

3

I am making a script.I have read man and test it out.I know we can use some thing like this

find /abc -type f \! -perm  664

But this gave me files which are not 664.I want to find files in a directory have permission below 664.or less then 664.is there any way in find we can achive it.

4

As Chris said - please define below 664? We cannot possibly help you otheriwse.

5

I guess then its not possible.I want all file which is less the 644.less then 664 can be any file permission.i dont want any specific

6

Those numbers are created by testing for set bits from the stat structure element called st_mode.

rwx=7
rw-=6
r-x=5

and so on.

You have three bits for each number 6 (user or owner) 6 (group permissions) 4 (other or world permissions)
664 = rw-rw-r

They are not really addition or subtraction.

7

It may be possible (most things are), but if you don't tell us what "less than" means in this context, we can't help you.