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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Binary or ascii file Post 302088394 by u263066 on Tuesday 12th of September 2006 03:23:16 AM
Old 09-12-2006
Binary or ascii file
I want to verify the file is Binary or ascii file and accordingly I want to switch the program with ret code
ie 0 or success and 1 for failure
Can any one help me is this a correct syntex...i am getting error

Code:
#!/bin/ksh
$file filename
if [ $? -eq 'ascii' ]
   echo "ascii fie Found"
else
   echo " binary file not Found"
fi

 

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binary.peekstring

Binary.peekString(3kaya)				       Kaya module reference					  Binary.peekString(3kaya)

NAME

       Binary::peekString - Read a String from binary data.

SYNOPSIS

       String peekString( Binary block, Int offset )

ARGUMENTS

       block The binary block

       offset The location to read from (starting from zero)

DESCRIPTION

       Peek at the string val starting at offset offset
	An Binary.OffsetOutOfRange(3kaya) exception will be thrown if it attempts to access a value outside the block. Note that Kaya assumes the
       String is stored in the block in UTF-8 encoding, with null-termination.

AUTHORS

       Kaya standard library by Edwin Brady, Chris Morris and others (kaya@kayalang.org). For further information see http://kayalang.org/

LICENSE

       The Kaya standard library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms  of  the  GNU  Lesser  General  Public
       License (version 2.1 or any later version) as published by the Free Software Foundation.

RELATED

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       Binary.getBlockChunk(3kaya)
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