O uso de -perm +mode parece ser preterido. Talvez a ajuda de man find possa ajudar a resolver sua dúvida:
-permmodeFile's permission bits are exactly mode (octal or symbolic). Since an exact match is required, if you want to use this form for symbolic modes, you may have to specify a rather complex mode string. For example
-perm g=wwill match only files which have mode 0020 (that is, ones for which group write permission is the only permission set). It is more likely that you will want to use the ‘/’ or ‘–’ forms, for example-perm -g=w, which matches any file with group write permission. See the EXAMPLES section for some illustrative examples.
-perm–modeAll of the permission bits mode are set for the file. Symbolic modes are accepted in this form, and this is usually the way in which would want to use them. You must specify ‘
u’, ‘g’ or ‘o’ if you use a symbolic mode. See the EXAMPLES section for some illustrative examples.
-perm/modeAny of the permission bits mode are set for the file. Symbolic modes are accepted in this form. You must specify ‘
u’, ‘g’ or ‘o’ if you use a symbolic mode. See the EXAMPLES section for some illustrative examples. If no permission bits in mode are set, this test matches any file (the idea here is to be consistent with the behaviour of-perm -000).
-perm+modeDeprecated, old way of searching for files with any of the permission bits in mode set. You should use
-perm /modeinstead. Trying to use the ‘+’ syntax with symbolic modes will yield surprising results. For example, ‘+u+x’ is a valid symbolic mode (equivalent to +u,+x, i.e., 0111) and will therefore not be evaluated as-perm +modebut instead as the exact mode specifier-perm modeand so it matches files with exact permissions 0111 instead of files with any execute bit set. If you found this paragraph confusing, you're not alone – just use-perm /mode. This form of the-permtest is deprecated because the POSIX specification requires the interpretation of a leading ‘+’ as being part of a symbolic mode, and so we switched to using ‘/’ instead.
Referência:
- find (GNU findutils) 4.4.2