How to find all executable files?

[sdwdd]

Hey, Guys!

Can anyone one help me with designing a command that will
find all executable files(executable via a limited user's account)
?

I think that must be something like "find -perm xxxxxxx"


Thank you.

[deboom]

umm..mm I've never use find command . I suggest u to use grep instead..

grep -r xxxx  *.x

or

grep -r xxxx  *.*

or

grep -r xxxx  *

xxxx is filename path. and it xxxx is also word in file

[jojojo]

Log in as root and type

which filename 
eg. which mplayer

or

echo $PATH

. Usually, an executable program reside on /usr/bin directory.

[bigtomrodney]

I think he's more looking for a way to identify random files that are executable. Something like this may work

 find -perm 111 -exec echo {} \;
find -perm 333 -exec echo {} \;
find -perm 777 -exec echo {} \;

etc as bits which contain exectuable instruction. You are supposed to be able to do this using 'mode' along with perm but it doesn't seem to work for me, or at least is a lot slower.

[Andreas Saebjoernsen]

In unix there is a command called 'file' which will determine the file type of any file.
$file gimptool-2.0
will for instance give you:
gimptool-2.0: Bourne shell script text executable

Andreas