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Zanna

6:01 PM

This answer is literary

it has such drama

edwinksl

drama? where?

Zanna

> But many commands do do the same thing when run once with several arguments as when run several times with one argument, and file is one of them.

A: How can I operate on all files of a certain type if they might not have the right extension?

0. The script wants to do something like this. The script shown in your question tries to enumerate files and check if they are JPEGs, but does neither reliably. It tries to pass all the paths to file in a single run and extract both filenames and types from the output of file, which is reasonab...