rm all executables

scott

Hi all





I move some source code from an SGI to the PowerBook. Now I need to compile but all the old object files and executables are still there. What's the trick to delete all files that are set to execute? I looked in the rm and find man pages to see if there was a way to filter on mode but I don't see it.





Any help?

wmf

Did you try `make clean`? (Assuming there's a makefile.)



find -perm ought to do it.

willoughby

I'm pretty sure there isn't an exact command to remove all executables, but you could write a quick shell script to do it.



Basically this command will list all the files that are executables in a given directory:



ls -al | egrep "^-..x"



This one will do the same, but only print the files name:



ls -al | egrep "^-..x" | awk '{ print $9 }'



So in a shell script, do a loop that iterates through each line (which is actually each file name) and issues the rm command on that files name based on the output from the above command.



If I could remember the "for" syntax in shell scripting I'd do it for you...but its been awhile.

1337_5l4xx0r

ls -al | egrep "^-..x" > list.txt && for i in `cat list.txt`; do rm -f $i; done