Gerald Thurman wrote:
> I wrote a command that moves all the files having
> the permissions "rw-------" (i.e. 600) found in a
> directory to a different directory.  The command
> has the following logic inside of a loop.
> 
>  ls -l $filename | grep -q "^-rw-------"   # line 1
>  [ $? -eq 0 ] && mv $filename $newdir
> 
> The command works, but I wanted to replace line #1 with a
> single command eliminating the pipe.  Initially, I thought the
> 'test' command would be sufficient, but it's not.  Any ideas?
> 
Something like:
find . -maxdepth 0 -name $filename -perm 600 -exec mv {} $newdir \;

-- 
-Eric 'shubes'
"There is no such thing as the People;
  it is a collectivist myth.
  There are only individual citizens
  with individual wills
  and individual purposes."
-William E. Simon (1927-2000),
     Secretary of the Treasury (1974-1977)
  "A Time For Truth" (1978), pg. 237

 
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