On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 8:24 AM, David G. Mackay <mackay_d at bellsouth.net> wrote: > Thanks, I will remember. Now I just need to find out what it means by > read-only. A find -perm 400 on the directory gives no hits, nor do most > other variations, like 444, etc. Try: find . \! -perm /222 See "man find" for details. HTH, Filipe