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I'm trying to find all the web folders that are 777. But I only want a list of the top folders.

So if there is an img dir that has folders in it that are also 777 I don't want them returned.

Basically I'm looking for a way to have find stop descending after finding a folder that's 777.

find /var/www/vhosts/ -type d -perm 777

Gives me 

/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/img
/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/img/gbl
/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/img/ss

And all i want is the first one

/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/img
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Use the -prune flag.

find /var/wwwhosts/ -type -d -perm 777 -prune should show exactly what you want.

Edit: Here's what this is doing for me, I believe this is what you wanted?

# ls -l
drwxrwxrwx 4 root root 4096 Feb 25 14:21 c

# ls -l c
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 25 14:21 1
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Feb 25 14:21 2

# find . -perm 777 -prune
./c

# find . -perm 777 -prune -exec ls -ld {} \;
drwxrwxrwx 4 root root 4096 Feb 25 14:21 ./c
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  • That will return everything except the 777 folders. Maybe I can find a way to prune if the parent is 777 ?
    – Slashterix
    Commented Feb 25, 2010 at 20:25
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    Really? What OS/Bash version are you running on? This works perfectly for me. All the prune does is prevent recursing any further into the directory. It still prints the output.
    – Christopher Karel
    Commented Feb 25, 2010 at 20:31
  • I just suck at reading! You win! Thanks for the answer!
    – Slashterix
    Commented Feb 25, 2010 at 21:11
  • Completely understandable. It's some pretty counter-intuitive behavior from prune.
    – Christopher Karel
    Commented Feb 25, 2010 at 22:26

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