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Remove files that are not what they appear to be
#!/bin/sh
# Some image files were fetched from an URL and not validated.
# Hence we have files that have '.jpg' extensions but are actually HTML files.
# Clean these out
# Remove the `-i` from the `rm` if you don't want to manually confirm deletion
for f in `find ./ -type f -iname "*.jpg"`;
do
file "$f" | grep -q HTML
if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then
echo "Deleting $f"
rm -i "$f"
fi
done
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