How to check the extension of a filename in a bash script?

Question

I am writing a nightly build script in bash.
Everything is fine and dandy except for one little snag:

#!/bin/bash

for file in \"$PATH_TO_SOMEWHERE\"; d         


        

Answer 1

You just can't be sure on a Unix system, that a .txt file truly is a text file. Your best bet is to use "file". Maybe try using:

file -ib "$file"

Then you can use a list of MIME types to match against or parse the first part of the MIME where you get stuff like "text", "application", etc.