On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Peter Leftwich wrote:

> Two questions, first is why doesn't this work, or is there a flag I can use
> with "ls?"
>
> # find . -type f -perm +x
> find: -perm: x: illegal mode string
> # find . -type f -perm +x -print
> find: -perm: x: illegal mode string

You need to use the octal mode:

# find . -type f -perm +100

for the files executable for their owner. man find for details.

>
> Question II: Is find always recursive (through subdirectories) or can this
> be limited to x levels down?  Thanks.

man find. look for the maxdepth and mindepth flags.


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