Re: Working Through File Command?

"John Heim" <jheim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Tue, 4 Mar 2008 09:14:42 -0600

I'm not sure I understand your request. Are you saying you want to use the 

file command to identify files of a certain type and delete only those 

files? You probably can do anything you like via a combination of the find, 

file, grep, and xaarg commands.

The following line will delete all PDF documents in a directory tree (except 

for ones with a space in the name).

find . -exec file {} \; | grep 'PDF document' | cut -d':' -f1 | xargs rm -f

You'd want to replace the string "PDF document" with whatever string file 

uses to describe your documents.

----- Original Message ----- 

From: "Hart Larry" <chime@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

To: "Blinux Discussion List" <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 7:07 PM
Subject: Working Through File Command?

Hi All:  This was certainly a hard subject-line to ask about?

I wonder if I can search for or delete files in a directory based on what 

"file" reports?  You see, I am still trying to enjoy Mutella, a file 

sharing program.  However, now much of the time my searches are 

hijacked--and while the files may actually have an mp3 extention, they are 

apple or isa media, according to file.  Sure I can nuke them from the 

directory, but if there were a way to enter a system command in Mutella or 

in my searches to ignore these other file types.  Especially last 2-weeks 

its gotten so bad I closed out Mutella, but I really would like a better 

solution.  I have a quite large list of exception words in all my 

searches, but I figure I could have more accurate results if I can use the 

file command.

Any suggestions please.  In linux, other than Mutella, I had run overnet. 

Thanks in advance

Hart

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