SPUG: Checking for ASCII files
James Moore
james at banshee.com
Tue May 15 14:07:00 CDT 2001
Consider calling the UNIX "file" utility (usually found in
/usr/bin/file) from your script. Not a great idea if you've got huge
numbers of files (since you're going to be forking and exec'ing too
often), but you may find that some of the other facilities offered by
file would be useful.
James Moore
james at banshee.com
Lorraine Johnson wrote:
> What is the best way to determine if a file
> is ASCII or non-ASCII?
>
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