Thanks for the help. The "find . -executable -exec '{}' \;" works well.
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Fred James <[email protected]> wrote:
> wes wrote:
>> yes, but wouldn't it be easier to do that with just find?
>>
>> find . -executable -exec {} \;
>>
>> -wes
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Josh Cady <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Probably a stupid question, but if one wanted to find all files with
>>> execute bits set in a folder (find . -executable), and then execute
>>> them, all within a bash script, is there a simple "for files in *"
>>> loop that would accomplish this?
>>>
> That will work ... but caution ... it does search subdirectories as well
> ... may need to add something like ...
> "-maxdepth levels
> Descend at most levels (a non-negative integer) levels of direc‐
> tories below the command line arguments. ‘-maxdepth 0' means
> only apply the tests and actions to the command line arguments.
> "
> Check your man pages ... YMMV
> Regards
> Fred James
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