find executable

Search for executable files using find command

answered by GreenGiant - Stack Overflow

On GNU versions of find you can use -executable:

find . -type f -executable -print

For BSD (and MacOS) versions of find, you can use -perm with + and an octal mask:

find . -type f -perm +111 -print

In this context "+" means "any of these bits are set" and 111 is the execute bits. Note that this is not identical to the -executable predicate in GNU find. In particular, -executable tests that the file can be executed by the current user, while -perm +111 just tests if any execute permissions are set.