Linux command: How to 'find' only text files?

Question

After a few searches from Google, what I come up with is:

find my_folder -type f -exec grep -l \"needle text\" {} \\; -exec file {} \\; | grep text
         


        

Answer 1

Here's how I've done it ...

1 . make a small script to test if a file is plain text istext:

#!/bin/bash
[[ "$(file -bi $1)" == *"file"* ]]

2 . use find as before

find . -type f -exec istext {} \; -exec grep -nHi mystring {} \;