From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-02-25T04:26:04+09:00
Subject: Re: How can i determine the file type?

On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 05:35:42PM +0900, Chris Shea wrote:
> 
> If you're trusting the file extension (which I see no problem with), and 

That probably wouldn't be my preferred approach.  Trusting file
extensions is only a mostly-solution, and only on platforms where file
extensions are used by applications to determine whether they should try
to open the files.  Relying on the file extension to determine filetype
leads to issues with both portability and security, in my experience.

On the other hand, if this is only for personal use and meant to be
something of a throw-away script, I'm sure that doesn't matter much.

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