Is there a way to specify to find that I only want text files (and not binary files)? Grep has an option to exclude binary files, so I thought find probably has a similar feature, but I've been unable to find it.
Add a comment
|
2 Answers
That's because grep looks at the file's contents.
find . -exec sh -c "file -b --mime-type {} | grep -q '^text/'" \; -print
answered Jul 15, 2011 at 9:53
-
In Ubuntu this is
find . -exec sh -c "file -b --mime {} | grep -q '^text/'" \; -print– icc97Jul 4, 2012 at 21:28
find can find files by their metadata, but not check contents. However, you can couple it with file:
find .git -type f -exec file -iN0 {} + |
awk -F '\0' '$2 ~ /^: text\// {print $1}'
(You can remove the | awk ... part if you also want more detailed information.)
answered Jul 15, 2011 at 9:55
