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

I wrote a bash script that looks at the type of a file then copies it to a location, I use it to look through the videos I've watched online from my firefox cache:

#!/bin/bash
# flvcache script

CACHE=~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxxxx.default/Cache
OUTPUTDIR=~/Videos/flvs
MINFILESIZE=2M

for f in `find $CACHE -size +$MINFILESIZE`
do
    a=$(file $f | cut -f2 -d ' ')
    o=$(basename $f)
    if [ "$a" = "Macromedia" ]
        then
            cp "$f" "$OUTPUTDIR/$o"
    fi
done

nautilus  "$OUTPUTDIR"&

It uses similar ideas to those presented here, hope this is helpful to someone.