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 <josh.c...@gmail.com> 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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