Ubuntu cannot find out exe or bin extension file

Asked By jutexleni 20 points N/A Posted on - 08/17/2011

In Ubuntu 10.10 after opening any folder or disk drive when try to find any file by its extension name like as “*.exe” or “*.bin” etc then the system cannot find anything. So, how I can find these type of file of sub folder?

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Answered By TomCruise 0 points N/A #115818

Ubuntu cannot find out exe or bin extension file

Find command is used in unix to locate the file/files on the system. To find a file we must know the syntax of the command.

Here it is

> find /path/of/the/file 'file_name.*'

For example if you want to find file 'product_list.txt' on the machine then

> find /  'product_list.txt'

But if you want to find executable files, there will be small change in the command

> find  .  -perm /u=x,g=x,o=x

The above command will find the executable file in the current directory, which are executable by user, by group or by others

Another way to do this is

> find . -executable

This command will work even better. It  will find the executable file in the current directory

 

 

 

 

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Answered By khokho 10 points N/A #115819

Ubuntu cannot find out exe or bin extension file

you can use find. for example if you want to search for *.exe in /usr

find /usr -name *.exe

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