On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 17:46, Mike Dresser wrote: > > > On 19 Apr 2002, Peter Whysall wrote: > > > What we need to do is tell "find" to only find files that have > > executable bits set, with the -perm switch - however, the following: > > > > find / -type f -atime +30 perm ugo+x | xargs dpkg -S | sort | uniq > > > old.txt > > > > doesn't return anything. Can someone point out the staggering (yet quite > > invisible to me) stupidity I'm undoubtedly committing? > > how about: > > find / -type f -atime +30 -perm +111 | xargs dpkg -S | sort | uniq > > old.txt Well, old.txt now contains the following: peter:~ $ more old.txt fdflush: /bin/fdflush Hmm. I wonder if that hasn't taken it from one extreme to the other... Will the nightly running of updatedb throw a spanner in the works? Take care Peter. -- Peter Whysall peter.whysall@ntlworld.moc The TLD in my email address is sdrawkcab. Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 sid -- kernel 2.4.18
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