On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:19:51 -0800, PAN (Paul) wrote: > On 1/4/2012 4:38 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > I know you and Ed (and Marvin) have been round the block on this, but if > > you'll allow an oldie to sum up: > > > > Makefiles are not normally executables, in fact they aren't normally > > Shell scripts. Therefore they don't need to have the +x attribute. It's > > easy to list the Makefiles on your system and check this: > > > > ls -l $(locate -b -i '\Makefile') > > > > poc > > > poc: > > Thanks for the additional info. > > I'm unaware of "locate". I have been using "find". Took a quick look on > man pages and don't really see a difference, but I am not sure. Read "man locate" again then and more carefully? Pay extra attention to the first sentence? ;-) -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
