From: "M. Eteum" <meteum@...>
Date: 2005-06-02T03:05:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Document identification

Austin Ziegler wrote:
> 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

Super! Oh by the way, do you know if Perl or Python has it? I'm quite 
desperate to find the solution, therefore I'll take any solution while 
waiting for the Ruby modules.

Thanks