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How can I find only the executable files under a certain directory in Linux?
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I created a function in ~/.bashrc tonight to find executable files not in the system path and not directories:
# Quickly locate executables not in the path
xlocate () {
locate -0r "$1" | xargs -0 -I{} bash -c '[[ -x "$1" ]] && [[ ! -d "$1" ]] \
&& echo "executable: $1"' _ {}
} # xlocate ()
The advantage is it will search three Linux distros and a Windows installation in under a second where the find command takes 15 minutes.
For example:
$ time xlocate llocate
executable: /bin/ntfsfallocate
executable: /home/rick/restore/mnt/e/bin/llocate
executable: /mnt/clone/bin/ntfsfallocate
executable: /mnt/clone/home/rick/restore/mnt/e/bin/llocate
executable: /mnt/clone/usr/bin/fallocate
executable: /mnt/e/bin/llocate
executable: /mnt/old/bin/ntfsfallocate
executable: /mnt/old/usr/bin/fallocate
executable: /usr/bin/fallocate
real 0m0.504s
user 0m0.487s
sys 0m0.018s
Or for a whole directory and all it’s subs:
$ time xlocate /mnt/e/usr/local/bin/ | wc -l
65
real 0m0.741s
user 0m0.705s
sys 0m0.032s