List all graphic image files with find?

linux graphics find
Edward picture Edward · May 26, 2013 · Viewed 56.5k times · Source

There are many types of graphic images in this huge archive such as .jpg, .gif, .png, etc. I don't know all the types. Is there a way with 'find' to be able to have it list all the graphic images regardless of their dot extension name? Thanks!

Answer

j.holetzeck picture j.holetzeck · May 26, 2013

This should do the trick

find . -name '*' -exec file {} \; | grep -o -P '^.+: \w+ image'

example output:

./navigation/doc/Sphärische_Trigonometrie-Dateien/bfc9bd9372f650fd158992cf5948debe.png: PNG image
./navigation/doc/Sphärische_Trigonometrie-Dateien/6564ce3c5b95ded313b84fa918b32776.png: PNG image
./navigation/doc/subr_1.jpe: JPEG image
./navigation/doc/Astroanalytisch-Dateien/Gamma.gif: GIF image
./navigation/doc/Astroanalytisch-Dateien/deltaS.jpg: JPEG image
./navigation/doc/Astroanalytisch-Dateien/GammaBau.jpg: JPEG image

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