Re: how to find executable files

2002-09-25 Thread Peter Leftwich
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 07:13:51PM -0400, 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

Re: how to find executable files

2002-09-25 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Peter Leftwich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Erg, I knew that! :-/ It's just that I view the whole u+x scheme as the easy way and that real Unix junkies roll up their sleeves and use numeric perm's such as 0777 and 644 :-) Assuming that you're also referring to the scheme's use in chmod, note

how to find executable files

2002-09-24 Thread Peter Leftwich
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 Question II: Is find always recursive (through subdirectories) or can this be