From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2009-09-20T18:12:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Determining if a file is binary or text

James Masters wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I need to search text files for a given expression and flag a warning/
> error if that expression does not exist.  I'm going to search a large
> number of files using the Linux "find" command, so I won't know if
> they are binary or text.

require 'ptools'

File.binary?(your_file)

Regards,

Dan