Find files by mime-type

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Use this command to find files of a given mime-type. For example to find all PNG images in a directory or below:

find . -exec file -i {} \; | grep image/png

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SndChaser

As written this will match directories, pipes, etc. as well as files. An improvement would be:

find . -type f -exec file -i {} \; | grep image/png

Posted 2009-05-12 10:17:54

Vincent

You all forgot putting quotes arround:

find . -type f -exec file -i "{}" \; | grep image/png

It's also worth to mention that you can print all images of any type:

find . -type f -exec file -i "{}" \; | grep image/

Posted 2009-05-21 13:47:18

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