Re: detecting file types

dagecko <dagecko@xxxxxxx> writes:

Le Wed, 08 Feb 2006 13:35:55 -0500, Chris F.A. Johnson a écrit :

On 2006-02-08, dagecko wrote:
Le Wed, 08 Feb 2006 12:24:03 -0500, Bill Marcum a écrit :

On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 18:05:57 +0100, dagecko
<dagecko@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi

I would like to know how to detect if a file is binary, if
it's an ascii or if it's a link to another file.
Unfortunately I don't know how to do that.

man file

LOL.

What's so funny? If you type "man file" at a command prompt, you
will be given the manual for the "file" command, which is what you
need to determine the type of a file.

I didn't knew man file, it was so easy for you to tell that,
that's why I made a lol, there was nothing against you, sorry
if I hurted you.

I read it quickly, but in fact this was not what I was looking
for. I needed a way to detect, in a program made in C/C++, if
a file is a binary one or a simple ascii one.

man libmagic

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