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Old 09-20-2011
Delete files according to attributes
In a directory I have many *.dat *.f files and also binary files created from Fortran compilation that doesn't have a filename extension.

Is it possible to delete these binary files according to its attributes?

Thanks.
# 2  
Old 09-20-2011
What kind of attributes are you talking about? Extension?
# 3  
Old 09-20-2011
Yes. The unix file command will identify file types based on the content of the file.
Since deleting the wrong files is probably not an option, start by seeing what your file command sees in that directory:
Code:
find /path/to/directory/ -type f  -exec file {} \; | sort -k 2.1,2.99 -u

This will give you the file "types" that exist in the directory, with a few filenames, so you can see how this all works. Post the result.
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Old 09-20-2011
Hi,
Mostly binary file doesn't have "." in the name. If this applies in your system, I can give command to remove such files.
# 5  
Old 09-20-2011
Thanks for the replies.

This is the output from jim mcnamara's code
Code:
./inp10: ASCII English text
./nc.m: ASCII text
./DILAT2.DAT: ASCII text, with very long lines
./DILAT.BIN: data
./interpolate: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.4, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped
./interp.o: ELF 64-bit LSB relocatable, x86-64, version 1 (GNU/Linux), not stripped
./restrt.bin: empty
./interp.f: FORTRAN program

One of the files I want to delete is the file 'interpolate' above. The other files also must have the same type. How do I delete these files?
 
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