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Old 05-27-2009
Question Differentiate between MS Word and Excel files in Unix

Hi,

I want to differentiate between a MS Word and Excel file in Unix (not by extension). The condition which we are currently checking for is the pattern "\320\317\021\340" within first 40 bytes of the file. However this format is same in all MS Office files. Can somebody tell me any special characters which we can check which will differentiate between MS Word and MS Excel file.

Regards,
Rajan
 

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PYEXCELERATOR(1)					      General Commands Manual						  PYEXCELERATOR(1)

NAME
pyexcelerator - a module for reading/writing Excel spreadsheet files SYNOPSIS
pyexcelerator DESCRIPTION
This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. pyExcelerator is a Python module that can generate Excel 97/2000/XP/2003 spreadsheet files. It can also extract data from these files. It supports Unicode in Excel files, and can use a variety of formatting features and printing options. It can dump Excel and OLE2 compound files. Numerous examples of usage can be found in the examples/ directory. Additions utility scripts can be found in the tools/ directory. OPTIONS
This program does not take any command line options. AUTHOR
pyexcelerator was written by Roman V. Kiseliov <roman@kiseliov.ru>. This manual page was written by Kevin Coyner <kcoyner@debian.org> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. SEE-ALSO py_xls2csv(1), py_xls2txt(1), py_xls2html(1) October 12, 2006 PYEXCELERATOR(1)
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