{"id":8981,"date":"2005-05-19T10:34:53","date_gmt":"2005-05-19T07:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/05\/19\/finding-all-executable-files-on-the-system\/"},"modified":"2005-05-31T23:11:03","modified_gmt":"2005-05-31T20:11:03","slug":"finding-all-executable-files-on-the-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/05\/19\/finding-all-executable-files-on-the-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding all executable files on the system"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

find<\/code> is one of the most useful and feature rich commands in Linux. Sometimes it is not that obvious which parameters should be fed to find<\/code> for this or that behaviour. The manual could surely use some work.<\/p>\n

Today I was trying to figure out how I can find all executable files on the system. The manual suggests that I use the -perm<\/code> option with the specification of the mode. Figuring out the mode might get to you, so here is the example:<\/p>\n

find \/ -type f -perm +0111<\/pre>\n
One could specify any mode what-so-ever.  Just remember that 1 stands for ‘execute’, 2 stands for ‘write’, and 4 stands for ‘read’.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n
find is one of the most useful and feature rich commands in Linux. Sometimes it is not that obvious which parameters should be fed to find for this or that behaviour. The manual could surely use some work. Today I was trying to figure out how I can find all executable files on the system. … Continue reading Finding all executable files on the system<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,6,18,62],"tags":[1960,1531],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-8981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-linux","category-programming","category-technology","tag-command-line","tag-operating-systems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14521,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/09\/chmod-text-modes\/","url_meta":{"origin":8981,"position":0},"title":"chmod text modes","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"March 9, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I came across this blog post which praises text modes for \/bin\/chmod. 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