strange, it used to be only the softies that relied on file name extensions to determine file type. Apple people had the resource fork and Unix people had /etc/magic .
Anyway, you can write a nice script that would be a whole lot more robust, but the quick and dirty way would be to run this from the directory where all of your images are located in an xterm, or in a Terminal.app window: % file * | grep -i tif This would identify your tiff files, and then you can move them off to another directory, or what ever you need to do. Jerry On 05/26/11 20:00, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > On May 26, 2011, at 5:31 PM, glen wrote: > >> Sooo, the QUESTION: is there any Mac software that will sniff out the >> .tiff >> docs and send them to my high speed commercial digital copier and >> allow me to >> print the 3000 pages without having to open each tiff file separately >> to to >> print it. Or is this just another Mico$oft "I got'cha". > > > tiff files are not "microsoft" files. You can use the OS X command line > to achieve this. > > see <http://www.mcelhearn.com/2004/12/08/printing-from-the-command-line/> > > Yes you should be able to do what you want; but it will take some unix > chops. The find command is your friend. > > So the concept is 'find all the files like *.0001- *.0300 on the CD' and > send them to the lp command specifying the high-speed printer.' > > the find command should be able to do this. Hopefully someone with > better unix command-line skills can manage this. > > Asking on a linux forum may get you some help, if you can't find it here. > -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
