Se estamos falando de arquivos com bit executável definido, o comando find
tem -executable
test e -delete
action.
find /DIR/EC/TORY -type f -executable -delete
ou
find /DIR/EC/TORY -type f -executable -exec rm -f {} \;
deve fazer o truque.
Para excluir especificamente todos os arquivos executáveis em seu diretório pessoal (não em subdiretórios) e perguntar se você deseja excluir cada arquivo, faça algo como
find ~ -type f -executable -maxdepth 0 -exec rm -i {} \;
de man find
:
-exec command ; Execute command; true if 0 status is returned. All following arguments to find are taken to be arguments to the command until an argument consisting of ';' is encountered. The string '{}' is replaced by the current file name being processed everywhere it occurs in the arguments to the command, not just in arguments where it is alone, as in some versions of find. Both of these constructions might need to be escaped (with a '\') or quoted to protect them from expansion by the shell. See the EXAMPLES sec‐ tion for examples of the use of the -exec option. The specified command is run once for each matched file. The command is exe‐ cuted in the starting directory. There are unavoidable secu‐ rity problems surrounding use of the -exec action; you should use the -execdir option instead. -exec command {} + This variant of the -exec action runs the specified command on the selected files, but the command line is built by appending each selected file name at the end; the total number of invoca‐ tions of the command will be much less than the number of matched files. The command line is built in much the same way that xargs builds its command lines. Only one instance of '{}' is allowed within the command. The command is executed in the starting directory.