From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2008-11-18T03:40:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby equivalent to `find . -perm -g+rw -ls`

Bil Kleb wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I can't find a Ruby equivalent to
> 
>   find . -perm -g+rw -ls
> 
> Currently, it looks like I'll need to combine,
> 
>   File.stat(file).mode
> 
> with something like Hal Fulton's sym2oct,
> 
>   http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/96956
> 
> hacked into Daniel Berger's file-find gem,
> 
>  http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/248981
> 
> and require 'etc' to pull out the user and group names instead of uids
> and gids?
> 
> Is there an alternative to all this yak shaving?

Not at the moment, but both are excellent ideas. I've submitted them myself at:

http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=22854&group_id=735&atid=2912
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=22855&group_id=735&atid=2912

Supporting strings for users and groups is trivial. Supporting symbolic 
permissions will be more of a hassle.

Regards,

Dan