A collection of minimal binary files.

See Milestones for release notes.

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• https://nuget.org/packages/EmptyFiles/
• https://nuget.org/packages/EmptyFiles.Tool/

All files: https://github.com/VerifyTests/EmptyFiles/tree/main/files

• .7z (32 bytes)
• .7zip (32 bytes)
• .bz2 (14 bytes)
• .bzip2 (14 bytes)
• .gz (20 bytes)
• .gzip (20 bytes)
• .kmz (204 bytes)
• .nupkg (258 bytes)
• .tar (1 KB)
• .xz (32 bytes)
• .zip (22 bytes)

• .docx (810 bytes)
• .odt (647 bytes)
• .pdf (212 bytes)
• .rtf (6 bytes)

• .avif (70 bytes)
• .bmp (58 bytes)
• .dds (132 bytes)
• .dib (58 bytes)
• .emf (132 bytes)
• .exif (139 bytes)
• .gif (28 bytes)
• .heic (32 bytes)
• .heif (32 bytes)
• .ico (68 bytes)
• .j2c (44 bytes)
• .jfif (139 bytes)
• .jp2 (77 bytes)
• .jpc (44 bytes)
• .jpe (139 bytes)
• .jpeg (139 bytes)
• .jpg (139 bytes)
• .jxr (48 bytes)
• .pbm (8 bytes)
• .pcx (129 bytes)
• .pgm (10 bytes)
• .png (67 bytes)
• .ppm (12 bytes)
• .rle (58 bytes)
• .tga (21 bytes)
• .tif (198 bytes)
• .tiff (198 bytes)
• .wdp (48 bytes)
• .webp (26 bytes)
• .wmp (48 bytes)

• .ods (683 bytes)
• .xlsx (1.4 KB)

• .odp (667 bytes)
• .pptx (842 bytes)

• .bin (0 bytes)

Files can be consumed as a web resource using the following url:

https://github.com/VerifyTests/EmptyFiles/raw/main/index/empty.{extension}

So for example to consume a jpg use

https://github.com/VerifyTests/EmptyFiles/raw/main/index/empty.jpg

A 404 will result for non-existent files.

Ensure dotnet CLI is installed.

Install EmptyFiles.Tool

dotnet tool install -g EmptyFiles.Tool

emptyfile bmp

Creates {CurrentDirectory}/empty.bmp

emptyfile myfile.bmp

Creates {CurrentDirectory}/myfile.bmp

emptyfile path/myfile.bmp

Creates path/myfile.bmp

Creates a new empty file

AllFiles.CreateFile(pathOfFileToCreate);

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Throws an exception if the extension is not known. There is also a TryCreateFile that will return false if the extension is not known.

Use the optional useEmptyStringForTextFiles to create a empty text file if the extension is text. The file will be UTF8 no BOM as per https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.0.0/ch02.pdf "Use of a BOM is neither required nor recommended for UTF-8".

Gets the path to an empty file for a given extension

var path = AllFiles.GetPathFor(".jpg");

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Throws an exception if the extension is not known. There is also a TryGetPathFor that will return false if the extension is not known.

Returns true if the target file is an empty file.

var path = AllFiles.GetPathFor(".jpg");
True(AllFiles.IsEmptyFile(path));
var temp = Path.GetTempFileName();
False(AllFiles.IsEmptyFile(temp));

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Enumerates all empty files

foreach (var path in AllFiles.AllPaths)
{
    Trace.WriteLine(path);
}

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Use or replace a file

AllFiles.UseFile(Category.Document, pathToFile);
IsTrue(AllFiles.DocumentPaths.Contains(pathToFile));

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https://github.com/sindresorhus/text-extensions/blob/master/text-extensions.json

True(FileExtensions.IsTextFile("file.txt"));
False(FileExtensions.IsTextFile("file.bin"));
True(FileExtensions.IsTextExtension(".txt"));
False(FileExtensions.IsTextExtension(".bin"));
True(FileExtensions.IsTextExtension("txt"));
False(FileExtensions.IsTextExtension("bin"));

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FileExtensions.AddTextExtension(".ext1");
True(FileExtensions.IsTextExtension(".ext1"));
True(FileExtensions.IsTextFile("file.ext1"));

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FileExtensions.AddTextExtension(".ext1");
True(FileExtensions.IsTextExtension(".ext1"));
FileExtensions.RemoveTextExtension(".ext1");
False(FileExtensions.IsTextExtension(".ext1"));

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AddTextFileConvention allows the use of a convention based text file detection via a callback.

At app startup add a convention using FileExtensions.AddTextFileConvention:

[ModuleInitializer]
public static void AddTextFileConvention() =>
    // Treat files ending with .txtViaConvention as text files
    FileExtensions.AddTextFileConvention(path => path.EndsWith(".txtViaConvention"));

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Then any call to FileExtensions.IsTextFile will, in addition to checking the known text extensions, also check if any of the added text contentions return true.

True(FileExtensions.IsTextFile("c:/path/file.txtViaConvention"));

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An alternative approach to a text file convention would be to check if a file has a preamble that matches an known text encoding.

Hollow designed by Michael Senkow from The Noun Project.