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Old 12-17-2009
Question Types of File in a directory
Hello,

I have several thousand files with different extensions in a directory. Is there a single command to get what the various extensions are with a single command.

Thanks for your help!

Best,
Guss
Last edited by Scott; 12-17-2009 at 04:27 PM.. Reason: Removed font, color and size tags - post was almost unreadable
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Old 12-17-2009
Code:
find /path -type f -name "*.*" | gawk -F"." '{ext[$NF]}END{for(i in ext)print i}' | sort

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Old 12-22-2009
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Guss
 
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