How to find executables
By John Parsons •
I know there is a find switch. but I want to know how to search a specific type of file. For example I need kind of terminal command which search for only executable files.
52 Answers
This should do what you want:
find . -perm -u+x -type f If you want to find everything that could possibly be executable, you could look at mime-types or file output. That would be counter-productive though since you couldn't possibly catch every script.
References:
The man page
Stackoverflow
This also works,
find ~ -type f -executableList all executable files inside your /home/$USER directory.
From man find
-executable Matches files which are executable and directories which are searchable (in a file name resolution sense). This takes into account access control lists and other permissions artefacts which the -perm test ignores. This test makes use of the access(2) system call, and so can be fooled by NFS servers which do UID mapping (or root-squashing), since many systems implement access(2) in the client's kernel and so cannot make use of the UID mapping information held on the server. Because this test is based only on the result of the access(2) system call, there is no guarantee that a file for which this test succeeds can actually be executed.More in general
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