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get the file encoding

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The system is AIX 5.3
Give please command or script to get the file encoding

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What do you mean by "encoding". In Unix, one can usually use the "file" command, which reports a string associated with the sequence of bytes in said file.

Code:

$ file blah.gz
blah.gz: gzip compressed data

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