a question about GREP

[Jerry]

Mike,

You are right. Some files on our server which I believe are plain text files
turn out to be "data", based on what "file" command shows. Weird! These
files were moved from AIX system to the current Red Hat system,  could this
have something to with the file type?

Thank you.

Zhao

On 3/26/07, mike ledoux <mwl+gnhlug at alumni.unh.edu> wrote:
>
> > Steven's solution (listed below) only partially works, for reasons I
> don't
> > know. By "partially", I mean his solution can only find SOME files
> matching
> > the search criteria.
> >
> > find . -type f -name \*out\* | \
> > xargs file | \
> > awk '/ASCII/ { sub(/:/, ""); print $1}' | \
> > xargs grep -l zip > zip.txt
>
> If you run 'find . -type f -name '*out*' -print0 | xargs -0 file'
> I bet some of the files you are calling "plain text files" are not
> "ASCII text files", which is what the above is looking for.  For
> example, a file 'file' reports as "ISO-8859 English text" will
> almost certainly meet *your* critera for "plain text", but doesn't
> include "ASCII" anywhere in the output of 'file'.
>
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