Andrew Spiers <[email protected]> writes:

> Is this the best way?
>    dpkg -L python-docutils |  xargs ls -dF  | grep \*

Yuk.

> I used to do
>    dpkg -L python-docutils | grep bin
> but it seems this doesn't catch them all.

grep bin/ ought to find the ones you actually care about -- the ones for
end users.

Why do you want to find "all executables" ?

> Also, should all executable files be in bin/ directories according to
> the Debian packaging guidelines or the filesystem hierarchy standard?

No, there are things like /usr/lib/frobozz/libexec and /usr/lib/cgi-bin.

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