From: George Malamidis <george@...>
Date: 2007-06-19T17:01:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Check for text file

Hello,

On a *nix system, you can do

file_type = `file my_file`
puts file_type

but this will not work on Windows.

George

On 19 Jun 2007, at 08:33, Alin Popa wrote:

> Alin Popa wrote:
>> Alex Young wrote:
>>> Alin Popa wrote:
>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>
>>>> After some research I still cannot find a way how to see if a  
>>>> file is
>>>> plain text or binary. In fact I want to check if a file is plain  
>>>> text no
>>>> matter what characters are in it.
>>>> This thing may be possible by using ruby ?
>>>
>>> I think so, but it's a little unclear exactly what you're trying to
>>> achieve.  Do you have an example?
>>
>> I'm trying to do a replace in file for some text but I don't want to
>> consider files like archives or other binary files.
>
> Of course, when I'm on windows I can go after the file extension  
> and try
> to ignore some specific (eg. .exe, .zip, .jar, .rar, .anything_i_want)
> but I don't know how to do it on Linux/Unix OS where file extension is
> not mandatory.
>
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