Re: Find all files with at least one execute bit set

[Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen%sdaoden.eu@localhost>]

Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in
 <20250814212707.6XsmTpHW@steffen%sdaoden.eu>:
 |RVP wrote in
 | <4a495fb2-150d-67b7-cbbc-8a799868d595%SDF.ORG@localhost>:
 ||On Thu, 14 Aug 2025, Rocky Hotas wrote:
 ||
 ||> I'm trying to use find(1) in a POSIX way to list all the files (not
 ||> directories) with at least one execute bit set.
 ||> [...]
 ||> find /target_directory/ -type f -perm -001 -or -type f -perm -010 \
 ||> -or -type f -perm -100
 ||>
 ||> Is there a more compact, but still POSIX, way to obtain the same
 ||> result with NetBSD's find(1)?
 ||
 ||If not sticking to pure find(1):
 ||
 ||Compact, but slow, and filenames cannot contain (')--single quotes.
 ||
 ||$ find /dir/ -type f -exec sh -c "test -x '{}' && echo '{}'" \;
 ||
 ||Slightly faster, and should handle weird filenames:
 ||
 ||$ find /dir/ -type f -exec sh -c 'for f; do test -x "$f" && echo "$f"; \
 ||done' xxx {} +
 ||
 ||Note the `xxx' above. It, or some other string, is reqd. there to supply \
 ||a `$0'
 ||for the shell. Of course, you would usually put all this in a shell \
 ||script, then
 ||`-exec' that :).
 |
 |fwiw GNU find(1) has 
 |
 |      -perm /mode
 |              Any of the permission bits
 |       -perm -mode
 |              All of the permission bits
 |
 |which then is pretty cool

of course not POSIX as you have asked; but .. dependent upon the
task it might still be worth doing something like
  find . -perm /0111 --help
or something, you know, and then go the one or other route?!
(And/or create a function which actually acts etc etc etc.)

Out of interest i just now looked, OpenBSD and NetBSD do not
support + or /, FreeBSD documents + but not /, busybox and GNU
find support + and /, but the former only documents + and the
latter obsoleted + in favour of /, but still supports it.

So lots of work all over the place!

 ||-RVP
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