[clue-tech] clue-tech Digest, Vol 55, Issue 22

[chris fedde]

I suppose it depends what you mean by binary.  Are you just talking
about anything with the execute bit on? or files that contain non
ascii bytes?  Perl has tests for each of those.

Files that are not executable:

   find2perl /etc/ -type f -! -type x  | perl

Files that do not appear to contain binary data:

   find2perl /etc/ -type f -! -type B | perl

As always YMMV

cfedde



On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Whiting, Gary
<Gary.Whiting at echostar.com> wrote:
>> Is there a way to pre-filter out all the binary files? Before grep gets to them?
>
>  find /etc -type f
>
> Finds files of type [f]ile. Or xtype depending on how you want to handle links.
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