AW: command to display all text files inside a directory

joe at illegal-access.de joe at illegal-access.de
Mon Jun 26 10:42:02 UTC 2006


There are two ways: 

  one simple:
      cat *

  or a one "more complex" one:
      for i in $(find . -exec file {} \; | grep "text" | sed "s/://" | awk '{print $1}' ); do echo $i; cat $i; done

cu,
 Joe

BTW: You can change every "binary-file" into a text: strings [filename] ...


>Hi ALL
>
>which command is used to display all text files inside a particular directory
>
>Thanks
>
>Kaushal
>
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