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

find . -type f | xargs file | grep "ASCII text" | awk -F: '{print $1}'

Use find command to list all files, use file command to verify they are text (not tar,key), finally use awk command to filter and print the result.