Thursday, August 11, 2011

find command to exclude binary files


In order to exclude binary files in Linux use the file command 


find . -type f | xargs file | grep -i  ASCII |cut -d: -f1


Explanation:


file command in this case executes the each of the file returned by the find command 
grep ASCII returns only the file having content in the ASCII format
"cut -d: f1"   returns the file name .







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