Re: Excluding files with grep

[DarkRick]

Hi Tony Abou-Assaleh-2,

I must suppose that the all the undamaged files have some printable
characters. I tried your solution and it works really good when I'm in a
Linux system. Thanks a lot.

But when I'm working with Unix Utils for a windows system it doesn't work.
What can I do? Or how should I fix it?

Thanks again.


Tony Abou-Assaleh-2 wrote:
> 
> Are the undamaged files text files that are guaranteed to have some
> printable characters anywhere in the file?
> 
> If so, then the following worked on my testing:
> 
> grep -rHc '[[:print:]]' mydirecotry | grep ':0$'
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> TAA
> 
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> Tony Abou-Assaleh
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> 
> On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, DarkRick wrote:
> 
>>
>> Hi Jian Wang-4,
>>
>> I have a lot of files in different folders, and some of them are damaged.
>> A
>> damaged file looks like a normal file in size,  i.e 300 Kb, but all the
>> 300
>> Kb of the file is 00 in hexadecimal format.
>> I don't know exactly which files are damaged, so and I found this
>> needing:
>> 1. To list the files that are ok and exclude all damaged files (That are
>> not
>> full of 00 in hexadecimal format), but that it is not useful because I
>> need
>> to replace the damaged files, or
>> 2. To list the files full of 00 in hexadecimal format
>>
>> I tried the second choice with this sentence:
>> $ find / -type f -print | grep ^[1-9A-Za-z]
>> It would return the files that doesn't contain the character set that I
>> want
>> to remove, but it returns nothing.
>>
>> Thanks a lot.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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