According to Justin MacCarthy: > Hi, > anyone point me to the best bash script option for checking the first 2 > characters of all the files in a directory? > > logic of the script is > > for each file in directory > test if the first 2 chars are "%!" > print Filename valid > if not > print Filename not valid > > > Does magic do something like this ? > > > Thanks Justin
Well, I guess file * would tell you they're postscript if they start with "%!" Or you could use a perl one-liner. Waider. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Chances are I'm not at home right now. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
