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From: hunt@dg-rtp.rtp.dg.com (Greg Hunt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: root owned files/world writable
Message-ID: <1990Nov26.154411.7107@dg-rtp.dg.com>
Date: 26 Nov 90 15:44:11 GMT
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In article <DANJ1.90Nov17154440@cbnewse.ATT.COM>, Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM writes:
> >>>>> On 16 Nov 90 18:21:50 GMT, hunt@dg-rtp.rtp.dg.com (Greg Hunt) said:
> 
> Greg>     find / \( -user root -perm -2 \) -print
> 
> I don't want to be dim, but isn't this the same as
> 
>           find / -user root -perm -2 -print
> 
> [both work ok]

Yup.  My mistake.  Thanks for pointing it out.

What I was thinking is that when you have to put one of the special
symbols between the conditions (like -o for "or"), then you have to
use the \( and \).  Since there is no special symbol for "and", just
putting the conditions next to each other, you don't have to use the
parentheses.

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