In the past, after doing upgrades of hardware or software, I have found green-colored exec files too. In my case, they seem to be old files in formats that no longer exist and/or are no longer supported. They were not originally UNIX files but were documents.

As stated above, given their location, I would say safe to trash.


On a Mac since 1984.
Currently: 24" M1 iMac, M2 Pro Mac mini with 27" BenQ monitor, M2 Macbook Air, MacOS 14.x; iPhones, iPods (yes, still) and iPads.