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?

;-)
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