Hi

I've got a bunch of files, and I need to find those files in which every byte contains 00 or $FF.

I've been searching and I've found only solutions to find zero sized files, but that's a different situation. The files I'm trying to find can have any size (i.e.: 279 bytes) but every byte inside the file contains a 0.

Do you know any program that can do that search?

I'd need either:
- A program that check the contents of every file on a given path and give me those files that are filled with zeroes.
- A program that sums the contains of every file on a given path, so I can find those files with a sum of 0 and look if they're filled with zeroes or not (crc32, md5 and sha checksums can not be used).

Thanks.

probably exists, but I would rather try to implement it. Which language do you prefer?

For text files, you can do it with a simple awk script, looking for something like ^0*$ and printing "OK" if all the lines match. But that wouldn't work if some of your files are binary.

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