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Old 02-17-2009
How to know the file type
Hi
I am doing some operation in which files will be dumped in Specific location.

I want to know the File type.i.e i am expecting CSV files.

So i want to write a script so that i can check the file which are dumped are in CSV Files.xxxx.csv format.
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Old 02-17-2009
Try the 'file' command, although this won't differentiate between a CSV file and a plain text file
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Old 02-17-2009
file {filename}
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