Quoting John Jason Jordan circa 09-12-16 04:47 PM: > At first I thought I could just figure out how to make the ls command > display only files with the x set. I haven't succeeded in figuring that > out yet, but I did do ls -l on the main ~/ folder. I discovered that my > files are a bigger mess than I thought. As a rough guess, about one in > ten files is set to be executable, including just ordinary data files. > > There really are just half a dozen in my home folder that need to remain > executable - a few shell scripts, and binaries for things like XaraLX, > Acroread, > and so on. Even if I got ls -l to display only the files that are > executable it would be a very long list because of all the files that > are set to be executable and shouldn't be. Nautilus informs me that ~/ > contains over 60,000 files. If one out of ten is executable, that is a > lot of files to look through manually.
find is your friend: $ find . -type f -executable -maxdepth 1 and to chmod 660 on the whole bunch: $ chmod 664 $(find . -type f -executable -maxdepth 1) -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
