Find all writable files in the current directory

Question

I want to quickly identify all writable files in the directory. What is the quick way to do it?

Answer 1

If you are in shell use

find .  -maxdepth 1 -type f -writable

see man find

You will find you get better answers for this type of question on superuser.com or serverfault.com

If you are writing code not just using shell you may be interested in the access(2) system call.

This question has already been asked on serverfault

EDIT: @ghostdog74 asked if you removed write permissions for this file if this would still find the file. The answer, no this only finds files that are writable.

dwaters@eirene ~/temp
$ cd temp

dwaters@eirene ~/temp/temp
$ ls

dwaters@eirene ~/temp/temp
$ touch newfile

dwaters@eirene ~/temp/temp
$ ls -alph
total 0
drwxr-xr-x+ 2 dwaters Domain Users 0 Mar 22 13:27 ./
drwxrwxrwx+ 3 dwaters Domain Users 0 Mar 22 13:26 ../
-rw-r--r--  1 dwaters Domain Users 0 Mar 22 13:27 newfile

dwaters@eirene ~/temp/temp
$ find .  -maxdepth 1 -type f -writable
./newfile

dwaters@eirene ~/temp/temp
$ chmod 000 newfile

dwaters@eirene ~/temp/temp
$ ls -alph
total 0
drwxr-xr-x+ 2 dwaters Domain Users 0 Mar 22 13:27 ./
drwxrwxrwx+ 3 dwaters Domain Users 0 Mar 22 13:26 ../
----------  1 dwaters Domain Users 0 Mar 22 13:27 newfile

dwaters@eirene ~/temp/temp
$ find .  -maxdepth 1 -type f -writable

dwaters@eirene ~/temp/temp