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Hi I need help. I need to use find (or grep I don't care) to recursively search for files who have any kind of executable permissions (group and/or owner and/or other). I am looking for *.c and *.h

This what I am using now:

Code:

find . -name *.h -perm -111 -print

but I don't want to retype that for -110, -010, -100, -001, etc....

also - how do I combine find to search *.c AND *.h instead?

Hi.

You can also use chmod-style symbolic permissions.

Code:

find . -name *.h -perm +ugo+x

Thanks! Do you also know how to combine the search for both *.c AND *.h ?

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And....can I just type

Code:

 +a

instead of

Code:

 + ugo

for all? Or is that not what 'a' means?

Hi.

Try:

Code:

find . -name "*.[hc]" -perm +ugo+x

Regarding +a... yes, why not?

If your "find" doesn't support alphabetic permissions it can still be done. The leading hyphen on the permissions bits tells "find" to treat the bit pattern as a mask.

Code:

find . -type f -name "*.[hc]"  \( -perm -000001 -o -perm -000010 -o -perm -000100 \) -print