Re: finding executable files in a debian package

Andrew Spiers <andrew@andrewspiers.net> writes:

Is this the best way? dpkg -L python-docutils | xargs ls -dF | grep \*

Yuk.

I used to do dpkg -L python-docutils | grep bin but it seems this doesn't catch them all.

grep bin/ ought to find the ones you actually care about -- the ones for end users. Why do you want to find "all executables" ?

Also, should all executable files be in bin/ directories according to the Debian packaging guidelines or the filesystem hierarchy standard?

No, there are things like /usr/lib/frobozz/libexec and /usr/lib/cgi-bin.