Make Extensionless Files Executable

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find . -type f ! -name "*.*" -exec chmod +x {} \;
"*.*"
is used to match all filenames that contain a '.'
! -name "*.*"
is used to find files that do not contain a '.'
, which usually means files without an extension.
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