From: John W Higgins <wishdev@...>
Date: 2009-09-19T12:47:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Determining if a file is binary or text

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Evening James.

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 4:15 PM, James Masters <james.d.masters@gmail.com>wrote:

> ...

For example, the "file" command can produce the following
> (all of which are ASCII):
>
> ASCII text
> XML document text
> Lisp/Scheme program text
>

What about file -i which returns the MIME type instead of "human readable"
format. That should limit the choices it will return or at least give you
something you can work with.

John

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