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From: "Justin MacCarthy" <macarthy AT iol DOT ie>
To: "Ilug AT Linux DOT Ie" <ilug AT linux DOT ie>
Cc: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: bash script Q
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 17:20:10 +0100
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Hi,
	anyone point me to the best bash script option for checking the first 2
characters of all the files in a directory?

logic of the script is

for each file in directory
	test if the first 2 chars are "%!"
		print Filename	valid
	if not
		print Filename	not valid


Does magic do something like this ?


Thanks Justin


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