Report on files by type

[darose-prQxUZoa2zOsTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org (David Rosenstrauch)]

On 03/10/2010 05:53 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
> On 03/10/2010 05:33 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote:
>> I got a drive from someone today, with 3.2 GB worth of content on it, and I
>> quickly wanted to find out what was on the drive by 'content type'
>> (mime-type)
>>
>> find -type f | egrep -o '\.(.?.?..)$' | sort | uniq -c
>>
>> did the trick for me, but left me wondering what File Manager or other tool
>> does a better job of this?
>
> find -type f | xargs file -i
>
> DR

Or actually, the summary that you're really trying to see:

find -type f | xargs file -bi | sort | uniq -c

DR