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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Binary or ascii file Post 302088400 by ghostdog74 on Tuesday 12th of September 2006 03:58:40 AM
Old 09-12-2006
just an example only.

Code:
file "$1" | grep -Fq executable
if [ $? -eq 0 ];then
   echo "File is binary"
else
    file "$1" |egrep "ascii|text"
    if [ $? -eq 0 ];then
        echo "File is ascii"   
    fi
fi

 

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Mail::Message::TransferEnc::Binary(3pm) 		User Contributed Perl Documentation		   Mail::Message::TransferEnc::Binary(3pm)

NAME
Mail::Message::TransferEnc::Binary - encode/decode binary message bodies INHERITANCE
Mail::Message::TransferEnc::Binary is a Mail::Message::TransferEnc is a Mail::Reporter SYNOPSIS
my Mail::Message $msg = ...; my $decoded = $msg->decoded; my $encoded = $msg->encode(transfer => 'binary'); DESCRIPTION
Encode or decode message bodies for binary transfer encoding. This is totally no encoding. METHODS
Constructors Mail::Message::TransferEnc::Binary->new(OPTIONS) See "Constructors" in Mail::Reporter The Encoder Mail::Message::TransferEnc::Binary->addTransferEncoder(TYPE, CLASS) See "The Encoder" in Mail::Message::TransferEnc $obj->create(TYPE, OPTIONS) See "The Encoder" in Mail::Message::TransferEnc $obj->name() See "The Encoder" in Mail::Message::TransferEnc Encoding $obj->check(BODY, OPTIONS) See "Encoding" in Mail::Message::TransferEnc $obj->decode(BODY [, OPTIONS]) See "Encoding" in Mail::Message::TransferEnc $obj->encode(BODY, OPTIONS) See "Encoding" in Mail::Message::TransferEnc Error handling $obj->AUTOLOAD() See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter $obj->addReport(OBJECT) See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter $obj->defaultTrace([LEVEL]|[LOGLEVEL, TRACELEVEL]|[LEVEL, CALLBACK]) Mail::Message::TransferEnc::Binary->defaultTrace([LEVEL]|[LOGLEVEL, TRACELEVEL]|[LEVEL, CALLBACK]) See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter $obj->errors() See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter $obj->log([LEVEL [,STRINGS]]) Mail::Message::TransferEnc::Binary->log([LEVEL [,STRINGS]]) See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter $obj->logPriority(LEVEL) Mail::Message::TransferEnc::Binary->logPriority(LEVEL) See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter $obj->logSettings() See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter $obj->notImplemented() See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter $obj->report([LEVEL]) See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter $obj->reportAll([LEVEL]) See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter $obj->trace([LEVEL]) See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter $obj->warnings() See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter Cleanup $obj->DESTROY() See "Cleanup" in Mail::Reporter $obj->inGlobalDestruction() See "Cleanup" in Mail::Reporter DIAGNOSTICS
Error: Decoder for transfer encoding $type does not work: $@ Compiling the required transfer encoding resulted in errors, which means that the decoder can not be used. Warning: No decoder for transfer encoding $type. A decoder for the specified type of transfer encoding is not implemented. Error: Package $package does not implement $method. Fatal error: the specific package (or one of its superclasses) does not implement this method where it should. This message means that some other related classes do implement this method however the class at hand does not. Probably you should investigate this and probably inform the author of the package. SEE ALSO
This module is part of Mail-Box distribution version 2.105, built on May 07, 2012. Website: http://perl.overmeer.net/mailbox/ LICENSE
Copyrights 2001-2012 by [Mark Overmeer]. For other contributors see ChangeLog. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html perl v5.14.2 2012-05-07 Mail::Message::TransferEnc::Binary(3pm)
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