Hi, 'find' is your best friend in that case ... Regards Alex On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 06:05 -0500, fly over wrote: > Hi guys, > i'm trying to write a script for following purpose. > > shell program will be used by Linux/Unix sysadmins to search for SUID/SGID files. The default directory to search is the present working directory, however, the user may include a directory name on the command line as an alternative. Also, if the user includes the argument '-R' then the search should include all subdirectories recursively. Also, the '-G' argument will include SGID files which by default are not shown. The output of the script should show the absolute pathname of the file and the owner. > > > Please help me in performin such task. > > i'm trying using this line: > > ls -l | awk '{print $1}' | grep s > it just prints the permissions having s bit. > > > -- > ___________________________________________________________ > Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com > http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm > > -- ======================================================= Alexander Spanke System Analyst NEC High Performance Computing Europe GmbH Prinzenallee 11 D-40549 Duesseldorf, Germany Tel: +49 211 5369 146 aspanke@xxxxxxxxxxxx Fax: +49 211 5369 199 http://www.hpce.nec.com =======================================================