Question

How do I search for an executable file using python in linux? The executable files have no extensions and are in a folder together with files that have different extensions. Thanks

EDIT: What I mean by search is to get the filenames of all the executable files and store them in a list or tuple. Thanks

Answer 1

To do it in Python:

import os
import stat

executable = stat.S_IEXEC | stat.S_IXGRP | stat.S_IXOTH
for filename in os.listdir('.'):
    if os.path.isfile(filename):
        st = os.stat(filename)
        mode = st.st_mode
        if mode & executable:
            print(filename,oct(mode))