I'm looking for a way through Terminal to list all file kinds in a given folder. I'm not interested in a list of all files.
This is for Araxis Find Duplicate Files, so I can refine my search by what it terms 'Pattern or UTI.' (For instance, where 'Kind' is 'Adobe Photoshop document,' the 'Pattern or UTI' is 'com.adobe.photoshop-image.')
Thank you!
Mac mini, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)
You can use mdfind:
For example, for PDF's:
mdfind -onlyin ~/Documents/ "kMDItemContentType == com.adobe.pdf"
or:
mdfind -onlyin ~/Documents/ "kMDItemKind == *PDF*"
Susan Swartz1 wrote:
This is for Araxis Find Duplicate Files, so I can refine my search by what it terms 'Pattern or UTI.' (For instance, where 'Kind' is 'Adobe Photoshop document,' the 'Pattern or UTI' is 'com.adobe.photoshop-image.')
Thank you!
Just curious but you have so many duplicate files in a folder that you cannot find what you are looking for in the results?
If you know what kind of file you are looking for, you can use
mdls path&filename
to list the metadata to find the UTIs for a specific file
mdls ~/Pictures/myphoto.jpg
wil list all the metadata (including UTIs) for this file
Once you find the UTI for a file, you can then use it in Araxis.
-> https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/ man1/mdls.1.html
Easy to do in Finder:
select the folder, set Finder to list view, clcik the Name column (this sorts alphabetically), then click the View menu in the Finder menu, then choose Arrange by choose Kind.
Thanks for everything so far.
I thought I could compare what’s on an external drive with what’s on my internal (and then delete the duplicates on my external), if I knew how to input the file kind into Araxis Find Duplicate Files. The program keeps crashing on me when voluminous files are involved, so I can't compare my entire external drive at once to my internal. Because of this, I thought I 'd try and work it by addressing only individual or just a few file kinds at a time.
I’d love suggestions for something easier so I could feel safe in deleting en masse, without worrying that I’m deleting some personal data file.
What I have is the result of crashes and recoveries and various different disks and writeovers and overall and in short, a great big giant mess. I’m trying to clean up what’s mostly junk but I don't know for sure which folders contain only junk and not some personal data that's not also on my internal drive. (Great, huh — ).
By way of example, below are subfolders contained in a FileSalvage folder. Each subfolder has files of the kind named on its corresponding subfolder. (Sorry to make this sound complicated. I couldn't figure out a simpler way to say what's probably pretty simple.)
Continuing thanks.
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Subfolders:
M3GPP video file
Adobe Photoshop
AIFF sound
Apple Compressor
Apple GarageBand Sound & Projects
Apple iDVD
Apple Keynote Presentation
Apple Logic Express and Logic Pro
Apple Pages
AppleScript
ASF movie
Automator Workflow
AVI (Audio Video Interleaved) movie
binhex archive
BMP image
bz2 compressed tar
C Source code
Digital Video & iMovie Movies
DreamWeaver Actionscript
EPS (Encapsulated PostScript)
FileMaker 5 Database
Flash swf
GIF (Graphics Interchange Format)
GIMP (Graphics)
Google Earth KMZ files
gzip archive
HTML
iCal Events
JPEG
Keychain File
M4A (iTunes music)
M4P (iTunes encrypted music)
m4v video
Mail (Mail.app received email)
Mail (Mail.app sent email)
Mail (mbox standard mailbox file)
Microsoft Excel Documents
Microsoft PowerPoint Documents
Microsoft Word Documents
MIDI sound
MP3
mp4 video
mpeg media
Ogg Vorbis
OpenDocument Spreadsheet (OpenOffice.org & others)
OpenDocument Text (OpenOffice.org & others)
PNG (Portable Network Graphics)
QuickTime Media
RealMedia
RTF (Rich Text Format) text
Stuffit SIT
Stuffit SITX
Targa image
TIFF (Tagged Image File Format)
TurboTax
WAV sound
WMA audio
WMV video
Since Araxis is crashing, have you considered using a different App to find the dups?
Using Terminal to Create List of File Kinds
