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Old 07-26-2011
Delete files not in English language
Hi All,

I have some 10,000 files in a directory. Now, some of those files are in English and many are not. They are in other languages like Arabic, Chinese, German, Portuguese, Japanese etc.

Is there any way to delete those files that are not in English as I want to only keep English files and remove all others?

I am using Linux and BASH.
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Old 07-26-2011
try the 'file' command
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