linux 'find' to find text files

subu_s · 12-01-2004, 11:56 PM

Hi All,
How do I use a find variation (find . -exec) to find all the non binary files in my path?

Regards,
Subramanian S

druuna · 12-02-2004, 02:10 AM

Hi,

If the permissions of the files are set correctly (ie binaries/executables rwx non binaries not rwx) you could do the following:

$ find . -perm -700

This will find all files with rwx for the owner. Group/world settings can be anything due to the - (minus) before the 700.

Using 700 instead of -700 will do an exact match (rwx------ only).

Hope this helps.

LasseW · 12-02-2004, 02:56 AM

The 'file' command returns the file type so play around with that to see what you want included/excluded in the listing. The following command will return all files whose descriptin contain the word 'text':

find . -exec file {} \; | grep text