On Monday August 20, 2007, "David Weintraub" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I would use a Perl script to read the first 8000 or so bytes of a
> file and look for characters outside of what you'd expect to be
> ASCII range.
Using Perl, the -T (for text) and -B (for binary) flags do pretty much
exactly that and work really well. For example:
$myfile = "some.file"
if ( -B "$myfile" ) {
# file is binary
}
else {
# file is text
}
- Rob
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