From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-06-02T02:29:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Document identification

On 6/1/05, Robin Stocker <robin-lists-ruby-talk@nibor.org> wrote:
> M. Eteum wrote:
> >      Is there a way to identify any documents from its header? I have a
> > bunch of document collected over the year from multi platform system,
> > Mac, Windows, and various unix/linux variant where some of the document
> > does not have file extension. Are there a list that tells us what header
> > should we expect for certain documents e.g. txt, rtf, pdf, jpg, mpg,
> > word, excel, visio, etc ...
> On a Unix system you could use the "file" command, it is able to detect
> file types even when there's no extension.
> I don't know if a Ruby module exists for this purpose though.

Not yet. ;) I do plan on adding it to MIME::Types in the future.

-austin
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