Selecting an application

[Sadhunathan Nadesan]

| Subject: Re: Selecting an application
| 
| The only thing I can think of is checking the "execute" permission on the
| file. Of course, that can be set for any file, but I'm not sure that there is
| a reliable way of distinguishing between, say,   an executable MetaTalk



If you wanted to find ALL executable files on your system (which may
be overkill for what you are doing), this would be one of many ways:

     % cd /
     % find . -name '*' -type f | xargs ls -als | fgrep rwx | less
      
Sadhu

(note, the % means, the shell prompt, don't type that part).