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warsong
Asked: 2015-04-29 02:18:58 +0800 CST

Ubuntu MATE is opening all existing text files as executable

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I have a lot of text files that I copied over from a NTFS volume which, when I open them in Ubuntu MATE 15.04 through the Caja file manager, open as executable and show the dialog box which asks me if I want to execute the file.

Is this a bug or normal behavior? This didn't used to happen in Thunar on Xubuntu.

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    It is normal behaviour. Well sort of. Be careful with regards to NTFS. Those partitions tend to be mounted as executable making all files ... executable.

    This one-liner will remove execute from .txt from the directory you execute it: 

    find . -type f -iname "*.txt" -exec chmod -x {} \;

    When a text file has executable permissions set or is recognized as executable generally it will ask for it to be executed or to be viewed.

    Nautilus also has a setting for this in "Edit" "preferences" "Behavior". Caja has the same option (though I have not found an image for Caja).

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