i want to find all the files that are not executable. I know how to find executable files
find -executable
but I don't know how to do the negation of -executable
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You can use ! as a negation for most flags, although you have to escape it in some shells:
find \! -executable
You can also use -not if you are using the GNU version, but it is not POSIX-compliant.
See find(1) for more information.
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I used that on my bin directory and it listed my scripts as non-executable?@forestfixit7– fixit72022-09-13 02:15:23 +00:00Commented Sep 13, 2022 at 2:15
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@fixit7 Are you sure they are executable then? What is their mode (e.g. 755)?forest– forest2022-09-13 02:16:07 +00:00Commented Sep 13, 2022 at 2:16
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But why did it list them? -rwxrwxr-x 1 andy andy 234 Apr 15 16:30 Tea.sh* -rwxrwxr-x 1 andy andy 58 Jun 15 2020 text2file.sh* @forestfixit7– fixit72022-09-13 02:16:58 +00:00Commented Sep 13, 2022 at 2:16
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@fixit7 I don't know. Can you post the entire output, including the command you used?forest– forest2022-09-13 02:29:04 +00:00Commented Sep 13, 2022 at 2:29
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2@fixit7 The paths should precede the predicate expression (e.g.
find foo.sh bar.sh ! -executable). I wonder whatfindyou're using if it didn't raise an error like GNU's does when putting paths after the condition.JoL– JoL2022-09-14 06:14:02 +00:00Commented Sep 14, 2022 at 6:14