Find all Text Files, recursively

June 30th, 2013

Because I was thinking of something like that for a long time.

In bash/zsh (add it to your .rc ):

textfiles ()
{
    file $(find $*) | /bin/grep -E 'text|empty' | cut -d ':' -f1
}

Using this function it’s possible to open all text files of a project at once:

kate $(textfiles project/*)

stuff. just for the records.

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