Prints out a bunch of information about all files in the current directory and subdirectories, recursively (see comment header for more info)

gistfile1.sh

#!/bin/bash
# by Zachary Klippenstein
#
# Prints out a bunch of information about all files in the current
# directory and subdirectories, recursively.
# Info includes:
#   - filename
#   - file type (as given by 'file' command)
#   - file contents (prefixed by filename and line number in file, and for binary files, result of 'strings')

# Like cat, but prints the name of the file before.
# Reads filenames from stdin
function tagcat()
{
    while read filename; do
        (text="`file \"$filename\" | grep text`"
        if [ "$text" ]; then
            cat "$filename"
        else
            strings "$filename"
        fi) |
        (linenum=0
        while read line; do
            linenum=$((linenum + 1))
            echo "${filename}: ${linenum}) ${line}"
        done)
    done
}

find
find -exec file \{\} \; 2>/dev/null
find -not -type d 2>/dev/null | tagcat 2>/dev/null