A collection of minimal binary files.

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

All files: https://github.com/SimonCropp/EmptyFiles/tree/master/files

• 7z (32 bytes)
• 7zip (32 bytes)
• bz2 (14 bytes)
• bzip2 (14 bytes)
• gz (29 bytes)
• gzip (29 bytes)
• tar (1.5 KB)
• xz (32 bytes)
• zip (22 bytes)

• docx (1.9 KB)
• odt (2.2 KB)
• pdf (291 bytes)
• rtf (6 bytes)

• avif (298 bytes)
• bmp (58 bytes)
• dds (136 bytes)
• dib (58 bytes)
• emf (620 bytes)
• exif (734 bytes)
• gif (799 bytes)
• heic (3.2 KB)
• heif (209 bytes)
• ico (70 bytes)
• j2c (270 bytes)
• jfif (734 bytes)
• jp2 (355 bytes)
• jpc (270 bytes)
• jpe (734 bytes)
• jpeg (734 bytes)
• jpg (734 bytes)
• jxr (300 bytes)
• pbm (10 bytes)
• pcx (131 bytes)
• pgm (12 bytes)
• png (119 bytes)
• ppm (14 bytes)
• rle (58 bytes)
• tga (543 bytes)
• tif (250 bytes)
• tiff (250 bytes)
• wdp (300 bytes)
• webp (228 bytes)
• wmp (300 bytes)

• ods (2.7 KB)
• xlsx (4.5 KB)

• odp (7.8 KB)
• pptx (13.3 KB)

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");
Assert.True(AllFiles.IsEmptyFile(path));
var temp = Path.GetTempFileName();
Assert.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);
Assert.Contains(pathToFile, AllFiles.DocumentPaths);

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

Assert.True(Extensions.IsText("file.txt"));
Assert.False(Extensions.IsText("file.bin"));
Assert.True(Extensions.IsText(".txt"));
Assert.False(Extensions.IsText(".bin"));
Assert.True(Extensions.IsText("txt"));
Assert.False(Extensions.IsText("bin"));

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Extensions.AddTextExtension("ext1");
Extensions.AddTextExtension(".ext2");
Assert.True(Extensions.IsText("ext1"));
Assert.True(Extensions.IsText("ext2"));

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Extensions.AddTextExtension("ext1");
Extensions.AddTextExtension(".ext2");
Assert.True(Extensions.IsText("ext1"));
Assert.True(Extensions.IsText("ext2"));
Extensions.RemoveTextExtension("ext1");
Extensions.RemoveTextExtension(".ext2");
Assert.False(Extensions.IsText("ext1"));
Assert.False(Extensions.IsText("ext2"));

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Hollow designed by Michael Senkow from The Noun Project.