Finding specific file type that has no extension
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Post Script 1 Fonts.... ffs over 20 years old.
Anyways we have tons of these and I would like to move every Post Script Type 1 file to a different folder and leave everything else in-place where it is.
These files have no extension, just the "Kind" is listed as PostScript Type 1.
Looking for ideas, since I can't target an extension, and I can't think of how to accurately target an empty extension.
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@Obsolesce said in Finding specific file type that has no extension:
Is there anything inside the file that can tell you? For example, if you write a script that cats each file or whayever and looks for specific string, then moves it if it matches.
I don't know what those files are, so ya. Just thinking out loud without any info.
No, because they are just ancient like ~20 + years old, no extension or really anything to hit on. Apple still supports Postscript Type 1 fonts, but nothing else does.
I managed to get it to work with what I needed with the above.
Additionally I created two reports 1) listing all of he postscript type 1 fonts and 2) listing truetype and opentype fonts.
So now we can build a list of things that needs to get upgraded.
To find the non-extension'd postscript type 1 fonts I used
find . -type f -d -empty >> old-crap.txtTo find the modern fonts I used
find . -name '*.ttf' -d >> modern-font.txtand just replaced .ttf with .otf, .otc, .ttc, .tte and .dfont and appended the same modern-font.txt file for each of those. -
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@black3dynamite I've already tried to use
fileand I get a blank response to stout. -
Small correction, if I search individual file by file with
file filenamedo I get some output, specificallyfile name: emptyWhat I'd ideally want to do is find any file that is
emptyand move those to a different folder. -
I think I got it to work, albeit without the move portion, just a straight delete.
find . -type -d -empty -deleteappears to have done what I needed. -
Is there anything inside the file that can tell you? For example, if you write a script that cats each file or whayever and looks for specific string, then moves it if it matches.
I don't know what those files are, so ya. Just thinking out loud without any info.
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@Obsolesce said in Finding specific file type that has no extension:
Is there anything inside the file that can tell you? For example, if you write a script that cats each file or whayever and looks for specific string, then moves it if it matches.
I don't know what those files are, so ya. Just thinking out loud without any info.
No, because they are just ancient like ~20 + years old, no extension or really anything to hit on. Apple still supports Postscript Type 1 fonts, but nothing else does.
I managed to get it to work with what I needed with the above.
Additionally I created two reports 1) listing all of he postscript type 1 fonts and 2) listing truetype and opentype fonts.
So now we can build a list of things that needs to get upgraded.
To find the non-extension'd postscript type 1 fonts I used
find . -type f -d -empty >> old-crap.txtTo find the modern fonts I used
find . -name '*.ttf' -d >> modern-font.txtand just replaced .ttf with .otf, .otc, .ttc, .tte and .dfont and appended the same modern-font.txt file for each of those.
