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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
Aug 17 '08 #1
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arne
315 Expert 100+
Try the 'file' command.

HTH,
arne
Aug 17 '08 #2
Thanks a lot it really wroks.
Aug 18 '08 #3

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