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Old August 17th, 2008, 11:26 AM
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Default Identifying ascii and binary files
Hi

I am going to write one shell script where i have to identify whether one file is Ascii file or binary(executable) file. How will i do that.

Give me some hints.

Thanks in advance...

-Ashok
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Old August 17th, 2008, 05:46 PM
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Try the 'file' command.

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arne
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Thanks a lot it really wroks.
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