Re: Excluding files with grep

[Tony Abou-Assaleh]

You need to provide more details about what happens, and why you think it
doesn't work, and if there are any errors or other messages. E.g.,
provide sample input and output.

BTW, why do you add number to name when addressing people?

Cheers,

TAA

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On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, DarkRick wrote:

>
> 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
> >
> > -----------------------------------------------------
> > Tony Abou-Assaleh
> > Email:    address@hidden
> > Web site: http://tony.abou-assaleh.net
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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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