From: James Masters Date: 2009-09-19T13:25:05+09:00 Subject: Re: Determining if a file is binary or text On Sep 18, 8:47 pm, John W Higgins wrote: > 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. Hi John - that's a good idea - I looked over the "file" command options over and over again today and somehow I missed this.